Help bring nutrition-led healthcare to more people
Healthcare systems across Australia and New Zealand are under growing pressure from chronic diseases that are, in many cases, preventable or manageable through lifestyle change.
Yet many clinicians still receive limited formal training in nutrition and lifestyle medicine—leaving them without the confidence and resources to support patients in one of the most powerful areas of preventative healthcare.
Doctors For Nutrition is working to change that.
With your support, we can advance a healthcare system that supports prevention, empowers patients, and gives clinicians practical tools to improve health outcomes.
Donate today to help put nutrition at the heart of healthcare.
How your support makes a difference
Doctors For Nutrition is an independent not-for-profit organisation working to make evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle education accessible to the people who need it most.
Because we don’t receive government or corporate funding, donations from people like you help keep our work independent, transparent, and free from industry influence.
Whether you make a one-off gift or become a monthly donor, your support helps build a healthier future.
Education
Most healthcare professionals lack nutrition education, and medical students are still not being taught enough. Others who are aware of the benefits of plant-based nutrition are not equipped with the tools to help their patients implement this way of eating. Doctors For Nutrition is working to address these issues.
Advocacy
Doctors For Nutrition advocates to stakeholders across the healthcare sector from government to key peak bodies, to highlight the powerful evidence in favour of whole food plant-based nutrition to prevent, alleviate and even reverse disease.
View our position papers, statements and policy submissions.
Community
Misinformation abounds about healthy eating patterns, leaving people confused and sometimes even dangerously misled. The current healthcare model emphasises pills and procedures over lifestyle interventions: patients are thus left without guidance on life-changing dietary approaches. Doctors For Nutrition empowers the community.
Give with confidence
Doctors For Nutrition is a registered health promotion in Australia with Deductible Gift Recipient Status (DGR) and is recognised as a Donee Organisation within New Zealand.
Donations over AUD $2 are tax deductible for Australian taxpayers. Donations over NZD $5 paid into our New Zealand bank account are tax deductible for New Zealand taxpayers.
You can donate securely using our online form (Australia only) or make a direct bank transfer using the details below.
For direct transfers, please see our bank details below and email us after making your donation so we can send your tax-deductible donation receipt.
Australia
Account name: Doctors For Nutrition
Account no: 12162189
BSB: 313140
New Zealand
Account name: Doctors For Nutrition Ltd
Account no: 02-1291-0211047-000
Other ways to support us
Fund a project or campaign
A larger gift can help accelerate a specific project or campaign that is ready to move forward with the right support.
If you are considering a gift of $5,000 or more, please contact us to discuss current funding opportunities and where your support could have the greatest impact.
Leave a gift in your Will
Leaving a legacy should feel meaningful, personal, and right for you. If a gift in your Will is part of your plans, we’re deeply grateful to be considered.
Every bequest, large or small, helps create a healthier future for all. Your generosity is what makes the work we do possible—and your impact can live on forever.
Become a member
Join our community of healthcare professionals, students, and supporters working to put nutrition at the heart of healthcare.
Subscribe and share
Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date with our work—and share it with someone who cares about prevention-focused healthcare.
Thank you to our supporters
As an independent, not-for-profit organisation, Doctors For Nutrition’s work is made possible by small grants and the generosity of supporters like you who share our vision for a healthier future.
We are grateful to every supporter who helps move this work forward.
More than 10 years ago I suffered from a cardiovascular health scare. After discovering the power of whole food plant-based nutrition I am proud to say I have turned my health around. I live a healthy, active life...recently supporting DFN on their charity walk in the Northern Territory!
Supporting others to make sense of this ever-changing, and often conflicting, food environment, and to realise that following a whole food plant-based diet doesn't need to be complicated, expensive, or restrictive, is what gives me purpose. Doctors For Nutrition is a group of like-minded professionals, all striving for that very same purpose.
I support DFN because they empower people to use nutrition to avoid and prevent disease. DFN also educate health care providers on the lifesaving benefits of a whole food plant-based lifestyle.
I have always tried to discuss nutrition with patients in the past, but despite knowing the benefits and eating plant-based myself I haven’t felt very confident. Now that I have some useful tools and techniques on how to broach the subject with patients I feel that I will be able to make a real change in the health of my patients.
Doctors for Nutrition is a fantastic group of like-minded health practitioners who understand the power of nutrition to change lives and significantly improve health outcomes for their patients. They are a beacon of hope against the ever-worsening epidemic of chronic disease in our society.
After a life-changing motor vehicle accident and a long rehabilitation period, I wanted to care for my brain health as much as I could. After a chance encounter with a plant-based trainer I discovered whole food plant-based. My body responded instantly and I have never looked back.
At all stages of the human lifespan, every incremental shift towards a diversified whole food plant-based diet is associated with incremental gains in longevity and vitality, and reductions in the burden of chronic disease and premature death.
I believe that one should lead by example. Since changing to a whole food plant based diet and increasing my exercise level, my blood cholesterol level has fallen by over 40% and I feel more vibrant and energetic.
I have been practicing medicine for 40 years. I only came across all the evidence for the benefits of whole food plant-based nutrition this year thanks to DFN. I have completely changed my diet and dropped my cholesterol back into the normal range. I feel amazing. I now promote WFPB nutrition to all my patients, it is now my number one lifestyle prescription.
