Healthy Food Systems Australia @hfsaus.bsky.social

HFSA published a paper! We looked at coverage of UPFs in Australian news media. The good news? UPFs are receiving more and more attention! But there's a need for more accuracy in discussing UPFs (esp. not conflating them with 'processed' foods or HFSS foods) Link below 👇

Hot off the press!🔥Our new @NatureFoodJnl paper asks how have governments regulated ultra-processed foods worldwide? We find a strong skew towards voluntary & information-based (i.e. weak) measures. There is huge potential to expand scope & strength of regulation 👇🧵 nature.com/articles/s4301…

Are you interested in hearing the latest evidence on ultra-processed foods and learning some practical solutions to mitigate their impact on human and planetary health? Register for this free webinar to hear from IPAN's Dr Priscila Machado and other experts 👇 @ppmachado_

A pleasure to speak last week with incredible colleagues on ultra-processed foods and what governments can do about this serious public health challenge. Drawing from our team's work, my talk focused on defining the problem, as largely a corporate and profit-driven one, and outlined a whole of food systems ecological approach to regulating ultra-processed systems. Link to event and recording below👇 imperial.ac.uk/news/258854/im…

Just reading again this paper by @prof_christine & @rainehaines of @MelbLawSchool and reflecting on (also again) how paradigm shifting the ideas are - ideas that we in public health can hugely benefit from, as we think about how to regulate harmful industries 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…

HFSA is now on Bluesky🦋as well! You can follow us there at: hfsaus.bsky.social

🚨 Job alert! An exciting opportunity to work with @DownieChristian on a new ARC Discovery Project on global #climate and #energy governance, with a focus on public finance for energy projects. Applications close 1 December 2024. Learn more: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/research-…

I'm honoured to be part of @MonashUni's virtual delegation for #COP29, commencing next week. I look forward to observing the decision-making processes, and gaining a better understanding of how #foodsystems and #planetaryhealth in particular feature on the global agenda.

📢Excited to share our new study on responsible investing and animal agriculture. We explore how institutional investors in Australia engage with ESG risks in the food system—revealing both promising steps and critical gaps. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

📢 JUST RELEASED: The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change. Delivers essential insights on the state of #PlanetaryHealth, revealing that the health threats of climate change have reached record-breaking levels. 👉lancetcountdown.org/2024-report/

Thanks for having me @nutsocaus! Always a pleasure to have a chance to talk about sustainable and healthy food systems 🍎🥦🌏

Food security superstar Dr Rebecca Lindberg this week advocated to add safeguards to a Senate bill to ensure healthy foods are incentivised for tax offsets. Thanks for bringing the voice of vulnerable, food insecure Australians to the hearing. 🙏 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=r_H62_…

More health and environmental reasons to avoid UPFs, if needed. …balizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Dr Priscila Machado has attracted over $1.5m of research funding in the last 3 years for her work on ultra-processed foods. We sat down with Priscila to find out what she envisions for the future of food systems. Read the full interview 👇 ipan.deakin.edu.au/2024/10/5-mins… @ppmachado_

Three key advocacy takeaways from my @HFSAus internship: 1) Build networks! Collectivisation is the key to achieving change 🤝 2) Have a personal mission statement and value-set to guide decision-making 💚 3) Try and fight FOR something more than you fight against something 💪

A warm welcome to @bethaniechong, our inaugral HFSA intern! Beth is passionate about improving the food system and is spending the final few weeks of her Doctor of Medicine/Master of Public Health degree helping out with our advocacy work. Great to have you onboard, Beth!🙌

Excited to share my latest research on #regenerativeagriculture, exploring the involvement of multi-national corporations in the regen ag movement. Are these companies turning over a new leaf, or is it just greenwashing? Find the full article here: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our paper in the The Lancet "Financialisation: a 21st century commercial determinant of health equity" Action is needed to ensure financial systems promote health, social equity and the environment. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New ⁦@ConversationUK⁩ article on the financialisation of food and dangers of market concentration ⁦@geographydarek⁩ ⁦@timothymonteath⁩ theconversation.com/the-global-foo…

We are recruiting! Research Fellow in governance for planetary health equity - come join us in the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/research-… @CroakeyNews @franbaum @davidschlosberg @PHEHothouse

“An ecological reorientation of the decision-making elements that influence how Codex sets food standards... could help transform food systems towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.” Our new paper is available online here: rdcu.be/dM44q