Support GNOME: Nutritional training that transforms patient care

Every day, millions turn to healthcare professionals for advice on living healthier lives. Yet most doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers receive little or no formal training in nutrition, one of the most powerful tools for preventing and managing disease.

In many training programmes, nutrition is taught only briefly or is missing entirely. That means clinicians are left treating symptoms instead of preventing them, and patients miss out on simple, effective interventions.

The result? A person with type 2 diabetes gets a prescription, but no guidance on what to eat. A patient recovering from illness misses the nutrition support they need to heal.

It’s not that healthcare professionals don’t care. It’s that the system hasn’t trained them to provide this knowledge.

This gap is real. And it’s costing lives.

It’s time for a global change.

GNOME - the Global Nutrition Observatory for Medical Education - is built to fix this at the root.

Not with another report. Not with another one-off initiative.

But with a system that:

- Tracks how nutrition is taught across countries and institutions

- Identifies what works and what doesn’t

- Helps medical and nursing schools integrate practical nutrition training into their core programmes

So future clinicians don’t have to guess. They’re trained to use nutrition as a fundamental part of care. It is led jointly by NNEdPro Global Institute and PAN International, two organisations at the forefront of nutrition and medical education globally.

Our mission is simple, but bold: equip every doctor, nurse, and health professional with the nutrition skills to prevent disease and support patients effectively.

GNOME is built on robust international research that has consistently revealed major gaps and inequalities in how nutrition is taught across medical schools worldwide.

With your support, GNOME can turn evidence into action, training the next generation of clinicians and making nutrition a core part of healthcare everywhere.

Why GNOME Matters Now?

Right now, a new generation of healthcare professionals is being trained.

If nothing changes, they will enter the system with the same gaps. That means another decade of missed opportunities to prevent disease. Another decade of avoidable suffering.

You can interrupt that cycle.

Your Contribution Creates Real Change

With your support, we can:

- Connect experts, clinicians and educators worldwide to co-design surveys and training frameworks grounded in real clinical need

- Track progress globally through regular data collection across countries, regions and institutions

- Identify what works by highlighting successful models that educators and policymakers can adopt and scale

- Strengthen training in medical schools and nursing programmes where it's needed most

- Improve health outcomes for communities living with chronic disease, because better-trained clinicians mean better prevention, better advice, and better care

Be Part of the Fix:

Healthcare doesn’t need more awareness about nutrition.

It needs professionals who are trained to use it.

That’s what GNOME is building.

With every pound you donate, you help ensure the next generation of clinicians can prevent disease, not just manage it.