Community Food Environment includes the type and location of food outlets available and accessible to the community.

The Food Environments Team is investigating the exposure of children and the community to the types, location and accessibility of the different sources of food in their community food environment to inform policy directions and regulatory options.

Contact the Food Environments Team at FET@ecu.edu.au

Current projects:

• Australian Food Atlas: Development of a national ‘Food Atlas’ to map, measure and monitor food access.
• Community Food and Environment Study
• Food Outlet Dietary Risk (FODR): Tools to assess dietary risk of food retail and food service outlets

Past projects:

• WA Food Atlas: Creating an online interactive Food Atlas to map, measure and monitor food access across WA.
• WA Local Government (LG) Public Health Plan (PHP) Review
• Junk filled neighbourhoods building an evidence base for change
• Evolution of community food environment within new residential developments (PhD Project Alexia Bivoltsis, 2017-2012)
• Neighbourhood food and alcohol access and longitudinal associations with dietary intakes