Fareeha Jay worked as a Diabetes Specialist in the NHS for 6 years, delivering educational sessions to people newly diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes.
Fareeha has a specialist interest in South Asian diets and provides specialist advice to South Asians across the globe. She is extremely passionate about providing the best available nutrition advice to the people with South Asian background.
She has expertise in healthy eating and sustainable diets for ethnic minority groups. She is also a dietitian with a high social media profile and uses evidence-based nutrition to support communication messages to the public, again focusing on ethnic minority groups. She is regularly featured in print, broadcast, and social media. Fareeha Jay has a social media following from over 99 countries across the globe. She has built up a following of more than 700,000 over all social media platforms.
She is a guest lecturer at The Plymouth University for undergraduate year 1 and year 2 students. The lectures are mostly focused on ethnic and cultural diets and provision of culturally competent advice in the health care. Have been giving online lectures to medical students on diabetes and eating disorders in Ramadan for Nutritank. Has been delivering CPD accredited webinars to dietitians and healthcare professionals on My Nutriweb. Also she has an experience of delivering a session for pharmacists.
Fareeha has been writing blogs for My Nutriweb, Planet Nourish and Fuchsia, and is a column writer for NHD-Network Health Digest- a magazine for dietitians, nutritionists and healthcare professionals .
She has developed the “South Asian Eatwell Guide”, which is now widely being used in many NHS trusts and various charity organisations.
She recently finished her post-graduate degree in Applied Professional Practice, which involved research work, writing research proposals, report writing and critical thinking.
She is also the Chair of the Freelance committee for the British Dietetic Association which entails organising meetings, record keeping, report of progress and gathering input from the group members and committee members, drafting agendas for the meetings, planning, and then sharing them with the wider dietetic fraternity.
She has designed diabetes programmes including programmes on diabetes prevention.
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