TRANSCRIPTHi, Sophie here as usual. This is just a very short piece of audio to let you know that the Foodies podcast will be taking a bit of a holiday until the later half of this year. As keen listeners will...

In this episode Kim Anastasiou, a Research Fellow at the Stretton Health Equity Institute of the University of Adelaide, unpacks the impact that ultra processed foods are having not just on our health but also our environment and what this m...

Dr. Fiona Willer is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy renowned for her advocacy of weight-neutral practices in healthcare. Throughout the podcast episode, Fiona shares insight...

Rowena Yamazaki is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian from YouthBlock - a specialist youth health service in Sydney. For the last 17 years Rowena has led the Yhunger program which aims to strengthen young people's food literacy skills and im...

Dr. Sue Kleve is a public health nutrition researcher and senior lecturer with the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food at Monash University. Sue has over 20 years’ experience working across community and public health nutrition setti...

Dr Alexandra Jones is a public health lawyer and researcher at The George Institute for Global Health within the ...

Helen Vidgen is an Associate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics at the Queensland University of Technology. This is Part Two of a two-part episode. This episode is all about Helen’s food literacy work and the global impact that it's had.If...

Helen Vidgen is an Associate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics at the Queensland University of Technology. This is Part One of a Two-part episode. In this first episode we go through Helen’s incredible career journey in public health and ...

Professor Sharon Friel is an ARC Laureate Fellow, Professor of Health Equity and Director of the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse and the Menzies Centre for Health Governance at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at the ...

Dr. Cathy Wilkinson is the CEO of the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation. The SAKG Foundation provides inspiration, information, professional development and support for educational institutions to deliver pleasurable food educati...

The roles are reversed in this episode with podcast host Sophie Wright-Pedersen in the hotseat being interviewed by Donna Munari. Sophie talks about her public health nutrition journey so far, why she started this podcast and where i...

Danielle Gallegos is a Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics at the Queensland University of Technology. With over 30 years of experience, Danielle continues to contribute significantly to public health nutrition work - particularly in the ar...

Professor Amanda Lee, of Public Health Policy in the Faculty of Medicine’s School of Public Health at the University of Queensland and Affiliate Professor at the UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health. Amanda is a Senior Adviser with The Aust...

Khia De Silva is the Nutrition Manager at the Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation (ALPA). In this episode Khia talks about working as a nutritionist embedded within a retail environment to support the implementation of the ALPA Healt...

Maree Thomson is the Managing Director for Hidden Harvest, a local food waste organisation. In this episode Maree talks through their advocacy work with Hidden Harvest, transforming the problem of food waste into delicious opportunities and ...

Miranda Chester is a the School Breakfast Program coordinator at Food Bank Western Australia where she's been working for the last 14 years. In this episode, Miranda talks about how the Healthy Food for All nutrition team at Food Bank WA int...

Miranda Chester is a the School Breakfast Program coordinator at Food Bank Western Australia where she's been working for the last 14 years. In this episode, Miranda talks about how the Healthy Food for All nutrition team at Food Bank integr...

Dr. Stephanie Godrich is a senior lecturer at Edith Cowen University. Stephanie talks about the South West Food Community Project which is all about coordinating work in the food security space as a way to address this complex and wicked pro...

Dr. Katherine Cullerton is a Research Fellow in the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland. Katherine has extensive experience working in in a range of public health sectors and settings in Australia and in the UK. Her curre...

Gina talks about her work as a public health dietitian working closely with community members and other key stakeholders in remote Central Australian Aboriginal communities. Gina emphasises embedding research into practice, the role of capac...

Tina Gingell talks about her PhD which uses participatory action methods to involve people with lived refugee experiences and those who are newly arrived to Australia to investigate ways of improving their community's food security through b...

Dr. Amy Carrad talks about the Strengthening Local Food Systems Governance project mapping local government policies in NSW and Victoria related to healthy, sustainable, and equitable food systems. Amy also provides some recommendations on how ...

Mel talks about her time working with First Nations communities co-desiging and delivering food and nutrition program within her role at Children’s Ground. Along the way, Mel reflects on some of her best moments and biggest learnings giving ...

Berbel talks about her collective action work at Food Fairness Illawarra and how championing local food has contributed to fairer, more sustainable and more resilient food systems. Berbel details the latest FFI projects including updating the w...

Ben talks about the food summit project addressing food security in the Northern Territory and his different roles over the years highlighting both the best moments and biggest challenges along the way. Further Food Summit conte...