Centre of Research Excellence in Food Retail Environments for Health: Next Generation (RE-FRESH: Next Generation)
Determinants of Health, Global Centre for Preventive Health and NutritionCreating the research evidence to help healthy food retail become the ‘new norm’ for food retailers such as supermarkets, convenience stores, cafes and kiosks, remote stores and all other places where people buy their food and drinks.
This centre is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (2024-2029) and builds upon research conducted by the NHMRC-funded Centre of Research Excellence in Food Retail Environments for Health (RE-FRESH, 2018-2023) – the first centre globally dedicated to the advancement of healthy food retail research and practice.
RE-FRESH: Next Generation (The Centre of Research Excellence in Food Retail Environments for Health: Next Generation) is working to improve diet and health at a population level by developing and translating the evidence needed to improve the retail food environments where people buy their food and drinks.
RE-FRESH: Next Generation is funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (2024-2029) and builds upon research conducted by the NHMRC-funded Centre of Research Excellence in Food Retail Environments for Health (RE-FRESH, 2018-2023) – the first global centre dedicated to the advancement of healthy food retail research and practice.
Our research team members are based in Australia and internationally, and include experts in nutrition, food retail, health economics, public health, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health, health policy, epidemiology, health law, biostatistics, equity, co-creation, implementation science and knowledge translation.
Institutions represented in RE-FRESH: Next Generation include Deakin University, The George Institute for Global Health, The University of Queensland, Monash University, The University of Auckland (New Zealand), Amsterdam UMC (Netherlands), The University of Western Australia, the University of New South Wales (Sydney), Food for Health Alliance (formerly the Obesity Policy Coalition) and The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre.
Our research includes partnerships with government and non-government organisations, community organisations and food retailers in Australia and overseas.
“In the RE-FRESH: Next Generation Centre of Research Excellence, we have a committed and talented group of researchers who are creating the research evidence that is helping to change the retail food environment so that it promotes healthy eating at a population scale.”
-Professor Adrian Cameron, Director, RE-FRESH: Next Generation
Contact us: re-fresh@deakin.edu.au
