Sydney Health Law invites you to a public lecture by Prof Terry Carney on Robodebt and welfare law, with journalist Rick Morton giving a response.

📅 Thursday 11 December, 6:00–7:30pm AEDT
📍 Law Lounge, Level 1, New Law Building, University of Sydney

Register free via Eventbrite: shorturl.at/vXl9K

Perspectives on the sustainment of a healthy vending initiative in a university setting: a reflexive thematic analysis | Journal of Nutritional Science | Cambridge Core Perspectives on the sustainment of a healthy vending initiative in a university setting: a reflexive thematic analysis - Volume 14

Congratulations to Dr Jane Dancey (my former PhD student) on publishing this study on the individual and organisational factors that drove Monash University's healthy vending initiative.

Individual leadership was important, but a supportive organisational environment was crucial: shorturl.at/wu4ga

Reducing unhealthy food and beverage advertising to children: a framework for strengthening performance, transparency and enforcement Food and beverage multinationals spend vast sums of money marketing unhealthy foods and drinks to children, using an integrated array of advertising techniques and media platforms. Countries have resp...

New publication alert ⚠️

We evaluated controls on food marketing in six different jurisdictions, producing recommendations for effective, transparent, and accountable regulation.

Key takeaway: good regulatory design is just as important as regulatory tool choice.

Full version: shorturl.at/ky4fp

ultra-processed food regulation

ultra-processed food regulation

ultra-processed food regulation

Hot off the press!🔥Our new @naturefood.bsky.social paper asks how have governments regulated ultra-processed foods?

We find a strong skew towards voluntary & information-based (i.e. weak) measures. There is huge potential to expand scope & strength of regulation 👇🧵

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

No eres tú, es la industria: la lucha contra los ultraprocesados cae sobre el consumidor y olvida a las empresas Un estudio señala que el 86% de las intervenciones para reducir el consumo de estos productos se limita al etiquetado. “Los gobiernos pueden y deben hacer mucho más”, señala su autora, que lo compara ...

A pleasure to talk to @elpais.com about our recent research in @naturefood.bsky.social 🙏

Great piece on the limits of current UPF policy approaches that put consumer responsibility ahead of structural measures 🙌

Our full findings here➡️ nature.com/articles/s43...

elpais.com/salud-y-bien...

Regulatory responses to ultra-processed foods are skewed towards behaviour change and not food system transformation - Nature Food Policies on ultra-processed foods (UPFs) can help drive food system transformation, but the extent to which the current policy and regulatory landscape contributes to this transformation remains uncle...

Immensely proud of my PhD student Tanita Northcott (at Deakin Uni) for having this work published in Nature Food.

It's a comprehensive analysis of how governments are regulating UPFs, finding a skew towards voluntary and information-based measures: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

I'd like to use my first post here to promote a paper by my PhD student (now graduate!) Dr Jane Dancey. Jane's new paper analyses vending contracts as a form of private regulation, and recommends how to use them effectively 👏
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

#vending #foodretail