INFORMAS eNewsletter December 2022

  Greetings INFORMAS colleagues, It was so great to get together face-to-face with so many of you in Melbourne in October. Our satellite meeting was super stimulating and INFORMAS research was highly conspicuous throughout the presentations in the public health...

Lee AJ, Kane S, Lewis M, Good E,  Pollard CM, Landrigan TJ and Dick M. Healthy diets ASAP – Australian Standardised Affordability and Pricing methods protocol. Nutrition Journal 2018;17:88. doi: org/10.1186/s12937-018-0396-0 Lee A; Lewis M. Testing the Price of...

INFORMAS Newsletter First Quarter 2019

Dear INFORMASters Greetings to you all. Another year of excellent work on benchmarking food environments around the world. There are now 37 countries in the INFORMAS network with over 139 applications of modules. This is amazing and to me shows the real value of this...

Food-EPI Malaysia

This article is taken from Star2.com  How well do we act on our national food policy? By Tan Shiow Chin B August 24 2018   There is a local aphorism that Malaysia has some of the best policies in the world, but our problem lies in the implementation. And when it...

How healthy are New Zealand food environments?

A major cause of New Zealand’s very high rates of obesity has been mapped in a world-first study from the University of Auckland. A comprehensive study of food composition, labelling, marketing, and prices as well as food in schools and retail outlets found that food...

BIA-Obesity Australia Fast Food Report Launch

INSIDE AUSTRALIA’S QUICK SERVICE RESTAURANTS 2018 Australians spend nearly 32% of their household food budget on fast food and eating out, and the average fast food meal contains almost half of an adult’s recommended daily energy intake. The policies and...