Make It Count: Forum on measuring household food security in Australia
The forum will examine current inadequate collection of food security data and propose effective tools for use across Australia in the future.
Topics: Healthy eating
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Collaborating for healthier food retail
An unhealthy diet is Australia’s key modifiable risk factor, resulting in more than 500,000 years of life lost to death and disability each year, so it’s important that healthcare service providers provide a good role model. -
Healthy diets in a time of food insecurity and rising cost of living
Australia is experiencing a perfect storm when it comes to food insecurity, underscored by the rising cost of living and multiple impacts on food supply chains. -
Deakin Food Policy Dialogue 2022
GLOBE and the Obesity Policy Coalition are excited to invite you to the 2022 Deakin Food Policy Dialogue: Towards prioritising policies that support equitable food systems. -
Unpacking the rising cost of food in Australia
In this podcast Professor Amanda Lee discusses food pricing and affordability in the Australian context, and its inequity. -
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Victoria Hobbs
Victoria Hobbs is Coordinator of the Nourish Network, a multi-sector collective working to increase demand, availability and access to healthy, sustainable and affordable retail food. Victoria works within the Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE) in the Institute for Health Transformation at Deakin University. The primary focus of her work is to connect … -
Dr Courtney Barnes
Dr Courtney Barnes is a Research Fellow with the National Centre of Implementation Science and University of Newcastle. Prior to being awarded her PhD in Behavioural Science in 2021, she was awarded a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics (Honours). Dr Barnes’ research aims to investigate and evaluate scalable approaches to improving the implementation and evidence-based … -
Carmen Vargas
Carmen Vargas is a public health nutrition professional with a Bachelor of Dietetics and Nutrition, and a double master on Public Health and International Development at La Trobe University. Carmen’s public health nutrition career is underpinned by her interest in prevention through nutritional education programs and healthy eating advocacy campaigns in Mexico. Her personal values … -
The George Institute: Why food is medicine
The George Institute for Global Health event discussing how unhealthy diets are a leading risk factor for chronic diseases worldwide.
