Resources & Publications

Local Food Systems Policy Index (Local Food-EPI+) Tool Implementation Resource

Grazing for dollars: responsible investing for healthy and sustainable animal agriculture in Australia

How supermarket retailers value business outcomes of healthy food retail strategies: a discrete choice experiment

Using spatial analysis to examine inequalities and temporal trends in food retail accessibility

Health in the age of asset manager capitalism

Protecting whose welfare? A document analysis of competition regulatory decisions in four jurisdictions across three harmful consumer product industries

Barriers and facilitators to dissemination of non-communicable diseases research: a mixed studies systematic review

‘Inside our Supermarkets’ Australian 2024 Report – launch summary

5 Minutes with RE-FRESH PhD candidate Damian Maganja: Q&A

Do food costs or profit change with increasing the healthiness of ready-to-eat food provision?

‘Inside Our Quick Service Restaurants’ Australian 2024 Report launch

A realist impact evaluation of a tool to strengthen equity in local government policy-making

The change in food service costs associated with increasing the healthiness of ready-to-eat food provision: A systematic scoping review

‘Inside our Quick Service Restaurants’ Australian 2024 Report launch – summary

How does the food environment in Tonga support healthy eating?

RE-FRESH 5 year impact report

The implications of policy modeling assumptions for the projected impact of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation on body weight and type 2 diabetes in Germany

Benchmarking for healthy food stores: protocol for a randomised controlled trial with remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia to enhance adoption of health-enabling store policy and practice

‘Inside Our Food & Beverage Manufacturers’ Australian 2024 Report launch

‘Inside our Food and Beverage Manufacturers’ Australian 2024 Report – launch summary

Use of online food delivery services among adults in five countries from the International Food Policy Study 2018–2021

Applying Systems Thinking to Improve a Hospital Food Retail Environment

“Healthier options tend to get lost in the noise of online” – Australian shoppers’ experiences with online grocery platforms

‘Inside Our Supermarkets’ Australian 2024 Report launch

Putting your money where your mouth is: Accelerating investment action for healthy and sustainable food systems in Australia

Research Summary: How much is invested in obesity prevention in Australia?

How much is invested in obesity prevention in Australia?

Building prevention research science communication and knowledge translation capacity through multidisciplinary collaboration

Australian hospital healthy retail policies – an analysis and scoping review of potential impacts on dietary behaviours

How much is invested in obesity prevention in Australia? An analysis of major research and Federal Government funding, 2013–2022

Supporting the next generation of prevention research leaders to conduct effective research-policy partnerships

Collaboration for advancing chronic disease prevention research, practice, and policy

Co-Creation in Public Health Research: An Introduction to Basic Principles

City of Ballarat – Local Food-EPI: Assessment of local government policies for creating healthy, equitable and environmentally sustainable food systems

Central Goldfields Shire Council – Local Food-EPI: Assessment of local government policies for creating healthy, equitable and environmentally sustainable food systems

SPECIAL REPORT: A snapshot of the RE-FRESH-funded ‘Knowledge Exchange Award’ journeys of our early-to-mid-career researchers from 2019-2023

UNICEF Summary Report: The Role of Food Retailers in East Asia and Pacific

EMCR Knowledge Exchange Award (Domestic) – 2023: Oriana Ruffini

A systems framework for implementing healthy food retail in grocery settings

The economic costs of alcohol-related harms at the local level in New South Wales

EMCR Knowledge Exchange Award (International) – 2023: Tara Boelsen-Robinson

Spillover effects of childhood obesity prevention interventions: A systematic review

Convenience as a dimension of food environments: A systematic scoping review of its definition and measurement

EMCR Knowledge Exchange Award (International) – 2023: Clara Gomez Donoso

EMCR Knowledge Exchange Award (Domestic) – 2023: Huong Tran

EMCR Knowledge Exchange Award (International) – 2023: Dr Tailane Scapin

City of Greater Bendigo – Local Food-EPI: Assessment of local government policies for creating healthy, equitable and environmentally sustainable food systems

Local Food Systems Policy Index (Local Food-EPI+) – Assessment of local government policies for creating healthy, equitable and environmentally sustainable food systems in Victoria, Australia

Live-streamed panel event recording: ‘Research & Practice’: Exploring how public health research has supported government & health and wellbeing agencies to deliver effective health promotion and prevention strategies

Webinar recording: University food environments in Australia

Chocolate unicorns and smiling teddy biscuits: analysis of the use of child-directed marketing on the packages of Australian foods

EMCR Knowledge Exchange Award (International) – 2023: Jasmine Chan

A comparative analysis of the cost-utility of the Philippine tax on sweetened beverages as proposed and as implemented

Landscape analysis of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing metrics for consumer nutrition and health in the food and beverage sector

Combining systems thinking approaches and implementation science constructs within community-based prevention: a systematic review

VIDEO: The potential of using co-creation as an approach to improve the healthiness of food retail environments

Evaluation of the introduction of the YMCA healthy food and beverage policy

Evaluation of the introduction of a healthy food and drink policy in 13 community recreation centres on the healthiness and nutrient content of customer purchases and business outcomes: an observational study

Strengthening local government policies to address health inequities: perspectives from Australian local government stakeholders

Guidance Framework to Support Healthier Food Retail Environments for Children: A practical tool for nutrition and children’s rights in the food retail sector (UNICEF)

Summary Report (2021-2023): Network on Children’s Rights and Nutrition in the Food Retail Sector (UNICEF)

Evidence Review of food retailer actions to support healthier supermarket environments for children – UNICEF NBIM initiative on nutririon and children’s rights in the food retail sector

EMCR Knowledge Exchange Award (International) – 2023: Dr Tari Forrester Bowling & Dr Miranda Blake

EMCR Knowledge Exchange Award (Domestic) – 2023: Bettina Backman

The COACH framework for guiding food environment change

CO-creation and evaluation of food environments to Advance Community Health (COACH): Example video

CO-creation and evaluation of food environments to Advance Community Health (COACH)

Developing Co-Creation Research in Food Retail Environments: A Descriptive Case Study of a Healthy Supermarket Initiative in Regional Victoria, Australia

Research summary: Overview of jurisdictional nutrition standards for publicly-funded institutions in Australia

Research summary: Global overview of national nutrition standards for publicly-funded institutions around the world

RE-FRESH Year 4 Report

Co-creation of health-enabling initiatives in food retail: academic perspectives

Dissemination of public health research to prevent non-communicable diseases: a scoping review

Lived experience of participants who engaged in the co-creation of initiatives to improve children’s health in a rural Australian community

ENROL NOW: “Transforming Retail Food Environments to be Health-Enabling” – 2023 Short Course

Towards healthy food retail: An assessment of public health nutrition workforce capacity to work with stores

Webinar recording: ‘Supporting families to make healthy supermarket choices: the Danish experience – with visiting Danish PhD student Katrine Duus

Healthy Retail Toolkit: A ‘how-to’ guide that supports hospitality retailers to offer healthier foods in their cafes

Webinar recording: Healthy Retail Toolkit (launch) – A ‘how-to’ guide that supports hospitality retailers to offer healthier foods in their cafes

Adoption, implementation, and sustainability of early childhood feeding, nutrition and active play interventions in real-world settings: a systematic review

Co-creation Approach in Practice: Naming a Cafe Located within a Rural Health Service Provides Added Value to a Health Strategy

The structure of the Canadian packaged food and non‑alcoholic beverage manufacturing and grocery retailing sectors through a public health lens

‘IN PROFILE’ SERIES: Meet Emma McMahon – RE-FRESH Early-to-Mid-Career Researcher

Public Support for Nutrition-Related Actions by Food Companies in Australia: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Findings from the 2020 International Food Policy Study

Implementation of a food retail intervention to reduce purchase of unhealthy food and beverages in remote Australia: mixed-method evaluation using the consolidated framework for implementation research

Healthy Food Prices Increased More Than the Prices of Unhealthy Options during the COVID-19 Pandemic and Concurrent Challenges to the Food System

The implementation and effectiveness of outlet-level healthy food and beverage accreditation schemes: A systematic review

Understanding weight status and dietary intakes among Australian school children by remoteness: A cross-sectional study

The influence of share buybacks on ill-health and health inequity: an exploratory analysis using a socio-ecological determinants of health lens

‘IN PROFILE’ SERIES: Meet Tailane Scapin – RE-FRESH Early-to-Mid-Career Researcher

Integrating nutrition and obesity prevention considerations into institutional investment decisions regarding food companies: Australian investment sector perspectives

Consumer willingness to pay for healthier food products: A systematic review

Assessing the Cost of Healthy and Unhealthy Diets: A Systematic Review of Methods

Webinar recording: Exploring the value of working in partnership to drive meaningful change in healthy food retail

Validation of the Thumbs food classification system as a tool to accurately identify the healthiness of foods

The impact of primary school nutrition policy on the school food environment: a systematic review

EMCR Knowledge Exchange Award (Domestic) – 2022

Cost-effectiveness of LiveLighter® – a mass media public education campaign for obesity prevention

Preventive health resource allocation decision-making processes and the use of economic evidence in an Australian state government—A mixed methods study

Reflexive Evidence and Systems interventions to Prevention Obesity and Non-communicable Disease (RESPOND): protocol and baseline outcomes for a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised prevention trial

Exploring the effects of added sugar labels on food purchasing behaviour in Australian parents: An online randomised controlled trial

RE-FRESH researcher recognised with national award

‘IN PROFILE’ SERIES: Meet Emalie Rosewarne – RE-FRESH Early-to-Mid-Career Researcher

‘IN PROFILE’ SERIES: Meet Moosa Al Subhi – RE-FRESH Early-to-Mid-Career Researcher

‘IN PROFILE’ SERIES: Meet Meron Lewis – RE-FRESH Early-to-Mid-Career Researcher

A mixed-methods evaluation of a health-promoting café located in a small health service in rural Victoria, Australia

Food industry perspectives on potential policies targeting unhealthy food and beverage price promotions in Australian supermarkets

RE-FRESH research Dr Miranda Blake features in Casey Cornucopia documentary series

Our work in Health Services Settings: an impact case study

Eat Well @ IGA – an innovative healthy supermarket initiative supported by IGA stores, Deakin University, the City of Greater Bendigo and VicHealth

Accelerating implementation of healthy food policies in retail outlets: Abridged report

Local government policies on healthy food promotion and obesity prevention: results from a national Australian survey

Implementation and sales impact of a capacity building intervention in Australian sporting facility food outlets: a longitudinal observational study

Protocol for a novel sodium and blood pressure reduction intervention targeting online grocery shoppers with hypertension – the SaltSwitch Online Grocery Shopping (OGS) randomised trial

Change in the Healthiness of Foods Sold in an Australian Supermarket Chain Following Implementation of a Shelf Tag Intervention Based on the Health Star Rating System

Understanding Enablers and Barriers to the Implementation of Nutrition Standards in Publicly Funded Institutions in Victoria

VIDEO: Co-Creation 101

Co-creation, co-design, co-production for public health – a perspective on definition and distinctions

VIDEO: What is co-creation?

Healthy food retail systems workshop: Part 2 recording

Healthy food retail systems workshop: Part 1 recording

Cost and affordability of healthy, equitable and more sustainable diets in the Torres Strait Islands

Co-creation of healthier food retail environments: A systematic review to explore the type of stakeholders and their motivations and stage of engagement

‘IN PROFILE’ SERIES: Meet Carmen Vargas Ares – Early-to-Mid-Career Researcher

Healthy Stores 2020: An Impact Case Study Report on an innovative pilot study with far-reaching outcomes

A Successful Intervention Research Collaboration Between a Supermarket Chain, the Local Government, a Non-governmental Organization and Academic Researchers: The Eat Well @ IGA Healthy Supermarket Partnership (book chapter)

Generating change through collective impact and systems science for childhood obesity prevention: The GenR8 Change case study

RE-FRESH Year 3 Report

Underinvestment in nutrition research for at-risk populations: An analysis of research funding awarded in Australia from 2014 to 2021

Cost–Benefit and Cost–Utility Analyses to Demonstrate the Potential Value-for-Money of Supermarket Shelf Tags Promoting Healthier Packaged Products in Australia

Nutrition-Related Information on Alcoholic Beverages in Victoria, Australia, 2021

Consumption Frequency and Purchase Locations of Foods Prepared Outside the Home in Australia, 2018 International Food Policy Study

Characterizing the Health of Older Rural Australians Attending Rural Events: Implications for Future Health Promotion Opportunities

Economics of sedentary behaviour: A systematic review of cost of illness, cost-effectiveness, and return on investment studies

Latest Trends in Investing for Improved Nutrition and Obesity Prevention

Beyond food swamps and food deserts: Exploring urban Australian food retail environment typologies

A cost–benefit analysis framework for preventive health interventions to aid decision-making in Australian governments

Factors Influencing Implementation, Sustainability and Scalability of Healthy Food Retail Interventions: A Systematic Review of Reviews

Testing the Accuracy of a Bedside Screening Tool Framework to Clinical Records for Identification of Patients at Risk of Malnutrition in a Rural Setting: An Exploratory Study

Does the prevalence of promotions on foods and beverages vary by product healthiness? A population-based study of household food and drink purchases in New Zealand

A Proposed Research Agenda for Promoting Healthy Retail Food Environments in the East Asia–Pacific Region

A Theory of Change for Community-Based Systems Interventions to Prevent Obesity

Development of the University Food Environment Assessment (Uni-Food) Tool and Process to Benchmark the Healthiness, Equity, and Environmental Sustainability of University Food Environments

RE-FRESH and UNICEF Video: marketing of food to children

Benchmarking for accountability on obesity prevention: evaluation of the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI) in Australia (2016 – 2020)

Webinar recording: Healthier Hospitals: Transitioning healthcare food retail environments

Costing recommended (healthy) and current (unhealthy) diets in urban and inner regional areas of Australia using remote price collection methods

Point-of-sale nutrition information interventions in food retail stores to promote healthier food purchase and intake: A systematic review

Systems thinking for Aboriginal Health: Understanding the value and acceptability of group model building approaches

Association between the school physical activity environment, measured and self-reported student physical activity and active transport behaviours in Victoria, Australia

Price promotions offered by quick service restaurants in Australia: analysis from an obesity prevention perspective

Healthy Vending at Deakin

Deakin University Healthy Vending Policy Evaluation: Video

Healthy Vending at Deakin University

Policy processes leading to the adoption of ‘Jamie’s Ministry of Food’ programme in Victoria, Australia

Favorable Commercial and Health Behavior Impacts of a Healthy Vending Policy at an Australian University

Evaluating the implementation and customer acceptability of a sugar-sweetened beverage reduction initiative in 30 Australian aquatic and recreation centres

Maternal knowledge explains screen time differences 2 and 3.5 years post-intervention in INFANT

RE-FRESH Year 2 report

Evaluation of the VicHealth Water in Sport initiative: video

Business outcomes of healthy food service initiatives in schools: A systematic review

Do taxes on unhealthy foods and beverages influence food purchases?

The influence of corporate market power on health: exploring the structure-conduct-performance model from a public health perspective

Healthiness of foods and non-alcoholic beverages according to store type: A population-based study of household food and drink purchases in New Zealand

Action-oriented prospective policy analysis to inform the adoption of a fiscal policy to reduce diet-related disease in the Solomon Islands

The ‘Eat Well @ IGA’ healthy supermarket randomised controlled trial: process evaluation

Mapping factors associated with a successful shift towards healthier food retail in community-based organisations: A systems approach

Healthy Stores 2020 Policy Action series: Healthy policy to support retailers and communities

Healthy Stores 2020 Policy Action Series: Introduction

Healthy Stores 2020 Policy Action series: Part 1: Healthy food and drink promotion

Healthy Stores 2020 Policy Action series: Part 2: Unhealthy food and drink promotion

Healthy Stores 2020 Policy Action series: Part 3: Price and price promotion

Understanding the healthfulness of outlets providing lunch and dinner meals: a census of a rural food retail environment in Victoria, Australia

Energy-dense, nutrient-poor food and beverage sales in Australia: where and when products are sold, and how sales are changing over time

The Impact of COVID-19 on Rural Food Supply and Demand in Australia: Utilising Group Model Building to Identify Retailer and Customer Perspectives

A Systematic Review of Economic Evaluations of Health-Promoting Food Retail-Based Interventions

Healthy Stores 2020: Reducing merchandising of discretionary food to improve health

Understanding the dynamics of obesity prevention policy decision-making using a systems perspective: A case study of Healthy Together Victoria

The Extent to Which Obesity and Population Nutrition Are Considered by Institutional Investors Engaged in Responsible Investment in Australia – A Review of Policies and Commitments

Benchmarking as a Public Health Strategy for Creating Healthy Food Environments: An Evaluation of the INFORMAS Initiative (2012–2020)

How healthy are Australia’s supermarkets?

Inside our supermarkets

The characteristics and extent of food industry involvement in peer-reviewed research articles from 10 leading nutrition-related journals in 2018

Cost and affordability of healthy, sustainable and equitable diets in the Torres Strait Islands

Beyond the black stump: rapid reviews of health research issues affecting regional, rural and remote Australia

Traditional Food Energy Intake among Indigenous Populations in Select High-Income Settler-Colonized Countries: A Systematic Literature Review

Healthy Stores 2020 infographic

RE-FRESH Year 1 report

The effect of front-of-package labels or point-of-sale signage on consumer knowledge, attitudes and behavior regarding sugar-sweetened beverages: a systematic review

Engaging small businesses in healthy food service initiatives

Effect of restricted retail merchandising of discretionary food and beverages on population diet: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial

The Development and Application of a Tool for Quantifying the Strength of Voluntary Actions and Commitments of Major Canadian Food Companies to Improve the Nutritional Quality of Their Products

Barriers and facilitators to implementing a healthier food outlet initiative: perspectives from local governments

Benchmarking the Nutrition-Related Policies and Commitments of Major Food Companies in Australia, 2018

A Mobile App to Rapidly Appraise the In-Store Food Environment: Reliability, Utility, and Construct Validity Study

Availability and placement of healthy and discretionary food in Australian supermarkets by chain and level of socio-economic disadvantage

A comprehensive overview and qualitative analysis of government-led nutrition policies in Australian institutions

The Advertising Policies of Major Social Media Platforms Overlook the Imperative to Restrict the Exposure of Children and Adolescents to the Promotion of Unhealthy Foods and Beverages

Understanding public support for policies that promote healthy food environments

Healthy, Equitable and Sustainable Diets: Cost and Affordability in Queensland

Policies influencing the provision of healthy food and drinks in local government‐owned sport and recreation facilities in Victoria, Australia

The association between national income and adult obesity prevalence: Empirical insights into temporal patterns and moderators of the association using 40 years of data across 147 countries

EMCR Knowledge Exchange Award – Domestic (2019)

Removal of unhealthy drinks from display in a self-service café: what do customers think and do they continue to buy healthier drinks?

Increasing the Price of Alcohol as an Obesity Prevention Measure: The Potential Cost-Effectiveness of Introducing a Uniform Volumetric Tax and a Minimum Floor Price on Alcohol in Australia

What can a soft-drink free policy in sport centres achieve?

Limited dietary interventions in rural Australian communities: A systematic review

Change in drink purchases in 16 Australian recreation centres following a sugar-sweetened beverage reduction initiative: an observational study

The Modelled Population Obesity-Related Health Benefits of Reducing Consumption of Discretionary Foods in Australia

Understanding the LiveLighter® obesity prevention policy processes: An investigation using political science and systems thinking

Retailers are the gatekeepers to healthy retail change

Supermarket price promotions: frequency, healthiness of items, and their potential role in improving health

A comparison of the modelled impacts on CVD mortality if attainment of public health recommendations was achieved in metropolitan and rural Australia

RE-FRESH Knowledge Exchange Award (International) Year 1, 2019

A systematic review of the Australian food retail environment: Characteristics, variation by geographic area, socioeconomic position and associations with diet and obesity

Healthy Stores 2020: A healthy strategy for retailers and communities

Prevalence of healthy and unhealthy food and beverage price promotions and their potential influence on shopper purchasing behaviour: A systematic review of the literature

Food Retail Environments in Greater Melbourne 2008–2016: Longitudinal Analysis of Intra-City Variation in Density and Healthiness of Food Outlets

The Healthiness of Food and Beverages on Price Promotion at Promotional Displays: A Cross-Sectional Audit of Australian Supermarkets

How Coca-Cola Shaped the International Congress on Physical Activity and Public Health: An Analysis of Email Exchanges between 2012 and 2014

Identifying opportunities to strengthen school food environments in the Pacific: a case study in Samoa

Targeting Children and Their Mothers, Building Allies and Marginalising Opposition: An Analysis of Two Coca-Cola Public Relations Requests for Proposals

Systematic review of the impact of nutrition claims related to fat, sugar and energy content on food choices and energy intake

Food retail environments: their relationships with health outcomes, socioeconomic measures and geographical area

A multi-country survey of public support for food policies to promote healthy diets: Findings from the International Food Policy Study

An accountability evaluation for the International Food & Beverage Alliance’s Global Policy on Marketing Communications to Children to reduce obesity: A narrative review to inform policy

Investigating menu kilojoule labelling policy adoption from a political science perspective

Benchmarking the commitments related to population nutrition and obesity prevention of major food companies in New Zealand

BIA‐Obesity (Business Impact Assessment—Obesity and population‐level nutrition): A tool and process to assess food company policies and commitments related to obesity prevention and population nutrition at the national level

The revolving door between government and the alcohol, food and gambling industries in Australia

Food and Beverage Price Promotions: an Untapped Policy Target for Improving Population Diets and Health

National policies to prevent obesity in early childhood: Using policy mapping to compare policy lessons for Australia with six developed countries

Measuring Rural Food Environments for Local Action in Australia: A Systematic Critical Synthesis Review

Issues in Measuring the Healthiness of Food Environments and Interpreting Relationships with Diet, Obesity and Related Health Outcomes

Associations between School Food Environments, Body Mass Index and Dietary Intakes among Regional School Students in Victoria, Australia: A Cross-Sectional Study

Measuring Rural Food Environments for Local Action in Australia: A Systematic Critical Synthesis Review