Sugar increase in Fanta and Sprite prompts calls for new tax on Australia’s food and drinks industry ⁦Adyya Gupta⁩ ⁦Institute for Health Transformation⁩ ⁦Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition⁩ theguardian.com/australia-news…

I am really looking forward to hosting Megan next week to see what we can learn from their experiences for our CDC and LPHUs. You are welcome to attend in person if you are in Geelong or online

This will be a fantastic talk! Looking forward to it.

Anna Peeters Public Health Australia

Happy International Women’s Day to all my amazing colleagues who strive every day to make the world a better place!
Institute for Health Transformation

🎧Great insights on the harmful impacts of junk food & drink advertising on our children: bit.ly/49GbRel

Government wants to hear your thoughts on options to limit this marketing in Australia! Do the survey by 15 March & make your voice heard: bit.ly/3Ip1FLh

We'd love to hear your thoughts! Email [email protected] to register your interest
#HealthyEating #food #Retail #Sustainability Carmen Vargas

A Deeble Institute for Health Policy Research perspectives brief led by Dr Hannah Beks and DELIVER researchers, lays the foundations for engaging older persons and their carers as co-researchers to improve healthcare delivery.

We looked at 700 plant-based foods to see how healthy they really are. Here’s what we found - ABC News ⁦The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand⁩ ⁦Laura Marchese⁩ ⁦Deakin Research⁩ ⁦Deakin IPAN⁩ abc.net.au/news/2024-02-2…

Great wisdom !
Weekend reading: FAO calls for food systems-based dietary guidelines foodpolitics.com/2024/02/weeken…

📢 New pub: Living between 2 worlds: lessons for community involvement
thelancet.com/journals/landi…
Check it out for reflections on #communityinvolvement from those with both lived & professional exp, representing T1D, T2D, LADA, GDM; research, health care, & advocacy.

The #ICO2024 Awards submission deadline is tomorrow, Friday 23 February. 📢

Don’t miss out on this excellent opportunity to attend #ICO2024 . 👀

The prestigious awards include:
🔹Willendorf Award
🔹 Wertheimer Award
🔹 William Philip T James Award
🔹 Emerging Leader Award…

The Victorian town of Maryborough has 30 liquor licences and five gyms Colin Bell says people in rural and regional areas have less access to fitness opportunities and that leads to poorer health outcomes Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition Institute for Health Transformation abc.net.au/news/2024-02-2…

Triple celebrations! Our PhD-funded candidatate
Carmen Vargas (left) is now a 'Dr', as is Ella Robinson (right), while Jaithri Ananthapavan (centre) this week received the Alfred Deakin Medal for her outstanding doctoral thesis 👏 Amazing work from these Deakin University researchers. Incredible!!

👇Always a great event! Sign up now to hear from 20+ speakers on a range of obesity related topics on World Obesity Day👇

How can we make food in Australian local government retail settings healthier & more sustainable? Take our short (5 min) survey to share your ideas: shorturl.at/mnpC6. Learn more about our work: shorturl.at/afIVX
Delicious & healthy food photo by Anh Nguyen

Community empowerment is the key to food security!

VACCHO and Institute for Health Transformation are thrilled to launch the Food Policies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health (FoodPATH) Community Report.

Read more here > buff.ly/3UMH0rQ

#FoodPATH #Nutrition #VACCHO

#ResearchOpportunity : Do you live #type1diabetes and worry about hypos? We’re looking for people to take part in #HypoPAST – a new online program aiming to reduce worries about hypos, and teach skills to prevent severe hypos. Find out more at our website: acbrd.org.au/hypopast-rct

Attention Long COVID comrades ... the Government Response to the Federal Parliamentary Inquiry was released today. See below.... health.gov.au/resources/publ…

The Mike Daube Early Career Advocacy Series aims to support ECRs to publish review or perspective articles on a topical public health or health promotion issue.

If you are an ECR check out how to submit to the series, and find examples of papers here 👇👇
academic.oup.com/heapro/pages/d…

This past weekend was the #InternationalDayOfWomenInScience 👩‍🔬

Equal representation in science is important as it enables inclusive research outcomes.

Meet some of the women at the ACBRD conducting ground breaking diabetes research:
acbrd.org.au/our-team/

#WomenInScience