Smart and responsive regulation for population nutrition

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This project examines the basic architectures of regulation and governance related to diet-related NCDs in four policy domains – food composition, food labelling, food taxation and food marketing restrictions. The end goal is to create a typology of regulatory governance that improves population nutrition in Australia. Funded by the Medical Research Future Fund (2019-2021).

Regulatory governance pathways to improve the efficacy of Australian food policies

22 July 2021

Researchers Sharon Friel, Yandisa Ngqangashe and Ashley Schram from the Menzies Centre for Health Governance at the ANU’s School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) recently completed a Me

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Blurred lines: Food marketing and digital content

12 February 2020

By Yandisa Ngqangashe

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Professor Sharon Friel

Professor Sharon Friel is Professor of Health Equity and Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Governance at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet). She was Director of RegNet...

Sharni Goldman

Sharni Goldman is a social science health researcher and PhD scholar at RegNet. She is interested in the social dimensions of efforts to address climate change including the impacts of mitigation...

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Dr Yandisa Ngqangashe

Yandisa is a Research Fellow in food regulation and governance for population nutrition at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet). She has expertise in Public Health and Social...

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Dr Ashley Schram

Ashley is a Braithwaite Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) and Deputy Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Governance. From 2017-2019 Ashley led a programme of...

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Society, safety and health

The Society, Safety and Health cluster has four research themes:

  • Policy processes and the social determinants of health inequities
  • Governance for health equity
  • Food systems, nutrition and climate change
  • Regulation and governance of health care systems

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