Food governance

Program overview

Law is a powerful tool to promote public health. Yet despite Australia’s leadership in areas like tobacco control and road safety, law remains underused as a tool to promote healthy and sustainable population diets. The Food Governance Program seeks to change this.

Our aim is to improve dietary intake at scale by monitoring the global food supply, assessing food policy impacts, and strategically strengthening food policies and regulations to promote health and sustainability.

Program objectives

• Monitor and evaluate the performance of existing food policies and regulations by leveraging the Institute’s FoodSwitch dataset
• Analyse regulatory innovation worldwide to develop recommendations on best-practice food regulation
• Work closely with UN agencies, national and state governments, public health and consumer organisations and academic collaborators to translate evidence into effective law and policy change.