Tēnā koutou, Healthy Start Professional Development offers education and training in these areas: Early-life science: Why it is so important to have good nutrition and physical activity during the first 1,000 days to reduce, prevent or minimise non-communicable diseases throughout life. Behaviour change skills: How to better support patients to make sustainable lifestyle changes. The Healthy Start early-life science programme is a package of 8 online modules to complete at your own pace. The modules explore and explain the science around why good nutrition and physical activity are so important during pregnancy and early life for long-term health. The module topics include the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD), links between maternal and fetal nutrition and life-long health outcomes, epigenetics, plasticity and the relevance of key modifiable risk factors for noncommunicable disease. Healthy Conversation Skills (HCS) is an interactive workshop to practice and explore skills, tools and techniques to have more effective and empowering conversations with patients or clients, including planning for lasting lifestyle behaviour changes. HCS can be delivered on site at your workplace, or via live facilitated zoom conferencing. The two programmes can be completed either individually or as a package; both are endorsed for professional development points/hours for NZ registered Nurses, Midwives and GPs.