Nutrition and Women's Health
- Executive Education
This 14-week online program equips participants with evidence-based knowledge and practical strategies to navigate nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and women’s health across midlife and beyond.
- Online; Self-Paced
Self-paced learning complemented by live sessions with faculty and weekly office hours conducted by program leaders.
$5,100
Flexible payment and team-based learning options are available.
Certificate
Upon completion of this program, you will receive a digital certificate from Harvard Medical School.
14 Weeks
Each week you will engage with recorded video lectures from faculty, attend webinars and office hours, complete quizzes and required activities, engage in moderated discussion groups with, and work on your final project, if required.
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Overview
The Nutrition and Women’s Health program is a 14-week online program that explores the intersection of nutrition planning, behavior change, and women’s health in the context of overall well-being. Combining two expert-led programs—Health and Wellness: Designing a Sustainable Nutrition Plan and the Women’s Health and Wellness Program—this comprehensive learning experience builds a deeper understanding of menopause science, preventive care, and healthy living across life stages.
In a landscape often shaped by misinformation and trend-driven narratives around nutrition and women’s midlife health, this program offers a credible, research-based perspective. Through self-paced learning, applied reflection, and instruction from Harvard Medical School faculty and leading specialists, participants engage with evidence-based frameworks in nutrition and lifestyle medicine, alongside insights into mental, cardiovascular, and brain health for women—strengthening their ability to make informed decisions for personal, professional, or community well-being.
Note: This program does not grant academic credit and does not provide certification as a professional coach. This non-degree program offers a certificate of completion to participants who meet the program requirements.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize women’s health changes in midlife and beyond.
- Examine the connection between a healthy lifestyle and disease and chronic conditions.
- Support women's sexual, cognitive, and mental well‑being with evidence‑based strategies.
- Apply the five-step collaborative cycle to motivate and empower clients to adopt and sustain healthy behavioral patterns.
- Support women’s well-being through preventive and lifestyle strategies.
- Identify evidence-based guidelines for healthy eating patterns and explain why certain foods are health-promoting/
Who Should Participate
Individuals seeking evidence-based insights into nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and women’s health, including midlife women and wellness or health care professionals.
About the Program
Guided by Harvard Medical School faculty and leading specialists, develop a deep understanding of nutrition, lifestyle medicine, and women’s health, and learn to translate evidence-based insights into practical strategies for well-being across life stages.
Questions?
Contact one of our program advisors at learner.success@emeritus.org.
This Harvard Medical School Executive Education program is taught by HMS faculty and is promoted by Emeritus. Emeritus is responsible for advertising, marketing, registration, and collecting payment.
This program does not grant academic credit or professional certifications from Harvard Medical School.
Curriculum
Through self-paced modules and applied exercises, the comprehensive curriculum helps you progress from understanding key women’s health considerations during midlife and beyond to examining evidence-based nutrition principles and the behavioral drivers of sustained well-being.
Teaching Team
Elizabeth Frates
MD, FACLM, DipABLM
- Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Director of Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness, Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Director of Wellness Programming, Stroke Institute for Research and Recovery, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
- President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Lydia E.W. Pace
MD, MPH
- Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
Meghan Ariagno
MBA, RD, LDN
- Program Director, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Stephanie S. Faubion
MD, MBA
- Chair, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida
- Penny and Bill George Director, Mayo Clinic’s Center for Women’s Health
- Medical Director, The Menopause Society
Tara Iyer, MD, DABOM, MSCP
Course Co-Director
- Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Director, Menopause and Midlife Clinic, Division of Women’s Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Associate Physician, Center for Weight Management and Wellness, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Hypertension, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
- Co-Director of Harvard CME Course: Women’s Health & Menopause
Emily S. Lau
MD, MPH
- Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Co-Director, Women’s Heart Health Program, Mass General Brigham
Margo Nathan
MD
- Assistant Professor, UNC Center for Women’s Mood Disorders Program
- Director, Women’s Neurology Education, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- Director, Functional Neurology Division, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Walter C. Willett
MD, DrPH
- Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition
- Chair, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health