Oral Presentation Australian and New Zealand Obesity Society Annual Scientific Conference 2024

Improving food environments and countering corporate power: the role of government regulation (#92)

Kathryn Backholer 1
  1. Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia

This presentation will uncover how corporate actors negatively influence our food environments and how government-led regulations can counter this influence by putting health before corporate wealth. It will focus specifically on food pricing and marketing as key determinants of unhealthy diets and the current political and policy landscape for obesity prevention in Australia.