Global Obesity CentreWorld Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention

ANNUAL REPORT2018

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CONTENTS

DIRECTORS’ MESSAGE

STREAM UPDATESGlobal obesityObesity and risk factor monitoringCommunity-based interventionsPolicies for healthy food environmentsEconomics of obesitySupermarkets & other food retailersEquity in food policy

PhD GRADUATES

GLOBE IN THE MEDIA

JOURNAL ARTICLES

COMMITTEES & ADVISORY GROUPS

PARTNERS & COLLABORATORS

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DIRECTORS’ MESSAGE

The Global Obesity Centre (GLOBE) is a dedicated group of researchers working collaboratively across seven research streams, actively seeking to push the science of obesity prevention through population level research, advocacy and capacity building across all levels of society in Australia and internationally. Our vision is to catalyse improvements in population health, with a focus on obesity, through innovative research that empowers people and enables healthier environments.

Our objectives are to conduct innovative population level research on obesity prevention, advocate for obesity prevention and strengthen the skills of communities, professionals and academics in the science of obesity prevention through the life-course.

The Global Obesity Centre is a World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre (WHO-CC). These are designated by the Director-General of the World Health Organisation to carry out activities in support

of the Organisation’s programs. Currently there are over 700 WHO collaborating centres in over 80 Member States working with WHO on areas such as nursing, occupational health, communicable diseases, nutrition, mental health, chronic diseases and health technologies.

We congratulate our staff and students on a very successful 2018,with that contributes to produce high calibre research, to the science of obesity prevention at a national and international scale. We look forward to continuing our important work in 2019 as part of Deakin University’s new Institute for Health Transformation, a network of more than 200 multidisciplinary researchers working with health, community and industry partners. The Institute will address 21st century health challenges through excellence in collaborative research that transforms the design and delivery of prevention and care.

Professors Steven Allender, Colin Bell, Marj Moodie, Anna Peeters & Boyd Swinburn

Global Obesity Centre Directors

Professor Steven Allender Professor Colin Bell Alfred Deakin Professor Marj Moodie

Professor Anna Peeters

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GLOBAL OBESITY

The ‘Global Obesity’ stream prioritises obesity prevention research, evaluation and capacity building in low and middle-income countries, including research into global influences on obesity. WHO collaborating Centre activities are led and managed through this stream.

ACHIEVEMENTS• Actively participated in the Pacific ECHO (Ending

Childhood Obesity) Network to initiate strategic actions around marketing to children, fiscal policies and physical activity.

• Developed a proposal for adopting a sugar-sweetened beverage tax to reduce NCD risk in the Solomon Islands on behalf of Solomon Islands Ministry of Health.

• Gade Waqa awarded her PhD around a systems approach to food related policy-making in Fiji.

• The Pacific arm of our CRE in obesity policy and food systems came to a close with a further three papers published around food-related policymaking in the Pacific.

• Adrian Cameron and Gary Sacks invited to coordinate an Australian arm of the International Food Policy Study, which is evaluating the impact of national-level food policy in Australia, Canada, Mexico, UK and USA.

• Participation in the Third WHO Regional Forum of WHO Collaborating Centres in the Western Pacific in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.

• Colin Bell undertook an Academic Study Program in Chile and Mexico to explore nutrition labelling and marketing legislation.

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OBESITY AND RISK FACTOR MONITORING

The ‘Obesity and risk factor monitoring’ stream aims to address the current absence of routine and high quality information on obesity and risk factors to make tangible changes in policy and practice.

ACHIEVEMENTSIn 2018, over 2,200 Grade 4 and 6 students from 52 Victorian primary schools participated in our Healthy Together Victoria and Childhood Obesity Study.

Alongside the Community-Based Interventions stream the Obesity and Risk Factor Monitoring Stream were successful in winning a NHMRC Partnership Project Grant titled RESPOND (APP1151572), which will see the routine collection of health information collected among primary school children in the Goulburn Valley and Oven’s Murray region in 2019, 2021 and 2023.

In 2018, the Susan McKinnon Foundation has graciously supported the Child Health Advocacy Monitoring Project (CHAMP), which aims to examine different approaches in conducting routine measurements of health behaviours of children.

PROJECTSHealthy Together Victoria and Childhood Obesity Study Conclusion

This project aimed to examine the change in obesity and associated risk factors (physical inactivity, sedentary behaviour, poor diet quality, sleep insufficiency and poor perceived quality of life) among primary and secondary school children involved in the Healthy Together Victoria (HTV) initiative. November 2018 saw the conclusion of this long-term project, which began in 2013 with the direct collection of height, weight and behavioural information among Victorian school children in the HTV intervention and prevention areas.

In the subsequent five years, four waves of data collection were completed (Pilot – 2013; Wave I – 2014; Wave II – 2016; and Wave III – 2018) and data has been collected from more than 14,000 school children across 147 Victorian primary and 49 Victorian secondary schools.

The project has had a number of major milestones, including being one of the first modern-day projects to successfully apply an opt-out approach to the routine collection of health information among school children,

which resulted in >80 percent student participation rates across Wave I-III.

As this project draws to a close, we would like to acknowledge the tireless and continued efforts of our Healthy Together Victoria and Childhood Obesity team within GLOBE and extend a heartfelt thank you to all the students, schools, Principals and parents/guardians involved in this research project. Special thanks also go to the Victorian Department of Education and Training, the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services, the National Health and Medical Research Council and the National Heart Foundation for supporting this vital research.

Whole of Systems Trial of Prevention Strategies for Childhood Obesity: WHO STOPS Childhood Obesity

As part of the WHO STOPS intervention, a key aim is to establish a sustainable and high participatory childhood obesity and risk-factor monitoring system in the South-West region of Victoria. This routine monitoring system has been implemented in 2015 and 2017 and will be replicated in 2019 and 2021. In 2018, the team made key presentations on the success of the low cost monitoring proposal at the 7th International Society for Physical Activity and Health Congress in London (October), and the Movement to Move: Global Insights to Get our Kids Moving conference in Adelaide (November). Additionally, data from this important study contributed to the development of the 2018 Active Health Kids Australia Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Young People.

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COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTIONS

New methods are required that facilitate the ability of communities and researchers to measure the components and processes of relevant systems (i.e. systems that impact childhood obesity in individual communities), to map and understand these systems, and to use systems data and models in real time to implement change and make ongoing improvements to multiple levels of the system.

PROJECTSRESPOND

RESPOND is a NHMRC Partnership Grant designed to extend the learnings of WHO STOPS (see ‘Obesity and risk factor monitoring’ stream above). RESPOND applies the WHO STOPS’ approach in the Goulburn Valley and Ovens Murray regions of Victoria (12 LGA’s in Victoria’s north east). The key addition in RESPOND is that instead of staff members at GLOBE facilitating group model building sessions, GLOBE staff are training local community capacity to run the sessions themselves.

Achievements:

• Launch of the grant.

• Held a series of meetings with partners to lay groundwork for project implementation.

• Ran three x two day systems trainings locally across northeast Victoria to beginning process of training local capacity in group model building.

WHO STOPS

The Great South Coast region is working together to strengthen community action and improve the health and wellbeing of children locally using community-based systems interventions and the collective impact framework. The best evidence suggests a collective response driven from, and by, the whole community is the most effective way to influence childhood obesity. This includes support and involvement from health services, education, business, government, other major community leaders and the community members themselves.

Achievements:

• Examination of data collected from primary school-aged children across the Great South Coast revealed positive changes in weight status in the right direction for WHOSTOPS intervention communities.

• Three group model building sessions were conducted across the Great South Coast.

• Seven communities are now in the community action/momentum phase. This includes two

communities that are broadening the use of systems thinking to other areas of community need, integrating work and considering how monitoring of this work might look in the future.

• One community has led an introductory training systems workshops to build capacity in it’s community leaders.

• Ongoing data collection from both intervention and comparison communities, including social network analysis, community readiness to change, economic data.

• An economic evaluation protocol paper outlining the process and methodology of evaluating this complex intervention was published in BMJ Open.

• South Grampians Glenelg PCP/Western District Health Service (GenR8 Change and SEA Change Portland) were winners of the Victorian Public Healthcare Award Supporting Healthy Populations with their work ‘Communities lead change to decrease childhood obesity’.

ACHIEVEMENTS• Launch of CO-CREATE, a large EU Horizon 2020

grant. GLOBE’s contribution to this grant is training obesity prevention researchers in systems thinking to prepare them to run group model building workshops with youth across several EU countries.

• Partnerships with Peninsula Health and Barwon Health to build systems thinking capacity in their health promotion teams.

• Partnered with Give Where You Live (GROW) to submit a regional skills fund application to address place-based disadvantage in Colac.

• Laura Alston successfully obtained a two-year Western Alliance associate research fellowship.

• Congratulations to Jaimie McGlashan, Jill Whelan and Laura Alston for submitting their doctoral theses.

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POLICIES FOR HEALTHY FOOD ENVIRONMENTS

The research in the ‘Policies for healthy food environments’ stream aims to improve the policy response to unhealthy diets and understand how the development and implementation of policies to create healthier food environments can be enhanced.

ACHIEVEMENTS• Inside our Food Companies: In an Australian-first,

we assessed major food companies in Australia on their policies and commitments related to obesity prevention and nutrition. The aim of the project was to drive improvements in the healthiness of Australian food environments, by engaging directly with companies to benchmark their nutrition-related policies against international best practice, and providing tailored recommendations for each company. The project findings were launched in three separate reports focused on supermarkets, food and beverage manufacturers, and quick service restaurants. Each release generated substantial national media coverage. The project was awarded the prestigious VicHealth Award for ‘Research into Action’.

• Food company policy assessment internationally: As part of INFORMAS, we developed the BIA-Obesity (Business Impact Assessment – obesity and population nutrition) tool to assess major food companies on their policies and commitments related to obesity prevention and nutrition. In addition to Australia, the tool is being applied in six other jurisdictions, including New Zealand, Canada, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brazil and Europe. Further results are expected in 2019.

• Understanding policy processes for obesity prevention: GLOBE PhD student Brydie Clarke successfully completed her PhD entitled ‘Understanding obesity prevention policy decision-making processes: A case study of Healthy Together Victoria using political and system sciences.’ Brydie undertook her PhD while on a research placement within the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

• ACE-Obesity Policy: We launched the results of our detailed analysis of the cost-effectiveness of policies for obesity prevention in Australia (ACE-Obesity Policy). All 16 policy options evaluated as part of the study were shown to be cost-effective. Refer to the ‘Economics of Obesity’ stream for further details.

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ECONOMICS OF OBESITY

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS• NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) in

Obesity Policy and Food Systems: The economics stream of the CRE completed the ACE-Obesity Policy study, which evaluated the economic credentials of a range of obesity prevention policies (including both regulatory and program-based interventions), across multiple sectors and multiple decision makers (local, State and Federal governments, and the private sector). Full economic evaluations were conducted for 16 interventions, and scoping papers prepared for a further 12. All 16 interventions were assessed as being cost-effective approaches to addressing obesity in Australia. The ACE-Obesity Policy report was launched in December 2018 by Deakin’s Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) Professor Julie Owens and Dr Bruce Bolam Chief Preventive Health Officer, Victorian Department of Health. The report attracted significant media attention and we plan to present the relevant findings to Federal and State governments in early 2019. The full report can be downloaded from: www.aceobesitypolicy.com.au

• Eat Well @ IGA (trial based economic evaluation): There is currently little evidence on the value for money of interventions in supermarkets that encourage the purchasing of healthier products. An important component of the Eat Well @ IGA study involves estimating the cost-effectiveness of various strategies implemented alone and in combination. Trial-based cost data has been collected and can be used to inform the feasibility of wide-scale implementation of different strategies. Changes in the energy density of foods purchased as a result of the intervention will be used to estimate long- term health outcomes and to estimate the cost-effectiveness of supermarket based interventions. To date, the cost-effectiveness of shelf tags alerting customers to healthier products has been evaluated and results show that this is a promising intervention. Economic evaluations of other supermarket strategies will be completed in 2019.

• BeUpstanding and Optimise (trial-based economic evaluations): Economic evaluations are being conducted alongside several intervention studies aimed at reducing sedentary behaviour. These studies provide the opportunity to further develop and modify the ACE-Obesity Policy model to incorporate sedentary behaviour as an independent risk factor for poor health outcomes.

ACHIEVEMENTS• Congratulations to Gade Waqa, who completed

her PhD; Anita Lal, who received a Dean’s Research Postdoctoral Fellowship; and Vicki Brown, who received the Council of Academic Public Health Institutions of Australasia (CAPHIA) 2018 PhD Excellence in Public Health Award.

• GLOBE director Professor Marj Moodie was awarded the title of Alfred Deakin Professor. This is the most prestigious honour that Deakin University can bestow on its staff.

The ‘Economics of obesity’ stream aims to conduct policy relevant research related to the economics of obesity. We work across projects from all GLOBE streams and with external collaborators to generate the economic evidence for obesity prevention policies and interventions. We currently have a total of five-full time equivalent economists working on 15 projects undertaking economic evaluations of several novel obesity prevention interventions across a number of settings including supermarkets and other retail settings, remote indigenous stores, workplaces, early childhood settings, whole communities, schools and online.

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SUPERMARKETS AND OTHER FOOD RETAIL STREAMS

In this stream of work, we focus on monitoring the retail food environment using product, price, place and promotion to actively nudge consumers toward healthier choices.

ACHIEVEMENTS• We were awarded a National Health and Medical

Research Council CRE in Food Retail Environments for Health (RE-FRESH) ($2.5M, 2019-23) that aims to develop evidence to support retailers and the public health community in the design, implementation and evaluation of retail interventions to encourage healthier purchasing and eating. The program is led by Anna Peeters, and includes an investigator team from GLOBE (Adrian Cameron, Steve Allender, Gary Sacks, Marj Moodie) as well as Monash University, The George Institute and the University of Auckland.

• The ‘Nourish Network’ was established through the Deakin University Research Network funding scheme, with the aim of utilising skills from across the University (GLOBE, Business, IT, Campus Services, Engineering) to support consumers, food producers, food retailers and governments to make more informed decisions about how to transition to healthier food retail. This project aligns closely with the CRE described above.

• Inside our Supermarkets: As described in the Policy stream highlights, the policies of major food companies in Australia related to obesity prevention nutrition were assessed. This included rating of the four major Australian supermarket retailers. The launch of the ‘Inside our supermarkets’ report generated substantial national media coverage.

• The 12 month, multi-component ‘Eat Well @IGA’ trial finished during 2018, with data cleaning and analysis now underway. A thorough process evaluation has been undertaken, with the cost-effectiveness of the program also being evaluated.

• Miranda Blake was awarded her PhD in 2018, as well as one was awarded one of three inaugural fellowships from the newly established Institute for Health Transformation. Her fellowship will help understand the role that key business outcomes (profit, customer and staff satisfaction etc.) have on the implementation, maintenance and diffusion of healthy food retail interventions. Miranda and Anna Peeters were also part of a team from Wyndham and Melton Councils to win the 2019 VicHealth award for ‘Promoting healthy eating’ for the ‘Sport and Recreation Healthy Eating in the West’ project.

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ACHIEVEMENTSResearch:

• PRICE Tracker: A NHF funded project to develop a national food and beverage price data base with >20,000 products, collected weekly from the two major Australian supermarkets. Automated methods for data collection are now complete with data collection ongoing.

• PRICE Study: A VicHealth funded study to test the health- and business-related impacts of three different price interventions co-developed with retailers within YMCA sports and recreation centres across Melbourne. Interventions developed and implemented include ‘Healthy Happy Hours’, ‘Healthy Bundle Deals’ and a combination of increasing the prices of selected unhealthy items whilst decreasing the prices of selected healthy items. Evaluation to be completed by mid-2019.

• PRICE Promotions: Establishment of a research program that aims to understand the role of population policies to reduce the influence of food and beverage price promotions. A series of manuscripts due for publication in 2019.

Fellowships and scholarships awarded: • Dr Jennifer Browne was awarded an Alfred

Deakin Fellowship and an Institute for Health Transformation Fellowship to examine the role of population food and nutrition policies for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and wellbeing (2019-2022)

• Dr Kathryn Backholer was awarded a National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship to extend her research program, which aims to support the implementation of effective and equitable food and beverage pricing policies (2019-2023).

• Oliver Huse was awarded a PhD scholarship to complete a project entitled ‘Food system transformation and policy evaluation in Asia’ (2019-2022).

Awards: • Dr Kathryn Backholer received an Australian

Institute of Policy and Science Victorian Tall Poppy award for research excellence and communication.

PhD completions:• Miranda Blake successfully passed her PhD entitled

‘Pricing strategies to reduce population sugar-sweetened beverage consumption’.

• Emma Gearon handed in her PhD thesis entitled ‘Epidemiology of obesity among Australian adults’.

EQUITY IN FOOD POLICY

The research in the ‘Equity in food policy’ stream aims to inform and support the necessary policy response to improve population diets and reduce the socioeconomic gradient in unhealthy diets and excess weight.

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PhD GRADUATES

Laura AlstonCompleted: April 2018. PhD focus was on inequalities in cardiovascular disease across rural Australia, specifically the role of modifiable lifestyle factors and policy makers’ perceptions of using evidence to drive policy to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease in rural areas. Laura’s PhD project received a research award from Graduate Women Victoria and she has been nominated as a World Heart Federation Emerging Leader in 2019 as a result of her PhD project.

Jill WhelanCompleted 2018: Jill’s PhD project was located in the rural and remote Local Government Area of Yarriambiack Shire Council, Victoria. Using community-based participatory research methods drawn from systems approaches, Jill sought to answer the question: ‘Can a rural Australian community lead and sustain obesity prevention?’ Findings identified 10 key factors for sustainable prevention. Community prioritised strategies that were led by either formal or informal community leaders and based on local policy, or embedded into organisational procedures were more likely to be implemented and sustained. Low resources, both human and financial, limited capacity to change.

Miranda BlakeCompleted: 2018 (Monash University). Miranda’s thesis focused on pricing strategies to reduce population sugar-sweetened beverage consumption

Her supervisors were Dr Kathryn Backholer, Prof Anna Peeters and Prof Emily Lancsar (ANU).

Gade WaqaCompleted 2018: in collaboration with the Pacific Research Centre for the Prevention of Obesity and Non- Communicable Diseases (C-POND), College of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Fiji National University. Her thesis focused on the systems approach to food-related policy-making and the use of evidence in the processes which was funded by the Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) project. Her supervisors were Professor Marj Moodie and Prof Colin Bell.

Other graduatesBydie Clarke, Jaimie McGlashan

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GLOBE IN THE MEDIA

GLOBE’s research was consistently featured in the media throughout 2018, with the Centre achieving more than 700 hits in print, radio, television and online media nationally. Our researchers were approached for expert comment on important topics from a proposed sugar tax to restrictions on junk food advertising to children. Outcomes from research projects like ranking the nutrition policies of major food and beverage manufacturers, supermarkets and fast food chains were widely covered.

Research that revealed sweet drinks to be a key driver in the obesity gap between children in high and low socio-economic demographics, GLOBE’s

support for a sugar tax, the EatWell@IGA program and recommendations to ban TV advertising of junk food all caught the media’s attention, although none so much as the ‘Call to ban Paddle Pop lion from packaging’ in response to research into major food and drink makers’ obesity prevention and nutrition policies.

This drew wide coverage in metropolitan and regional newspapers, online news outlets, and television and radio, as did a ‘Call to ban junk food at checkouts’ arising from GLOBE’s report into the nutrition policies of Australia’s major supermarkets.

Source: Isentia

TV (59)

AM radio (161)

FM radio (102)

Magazines (10)

Newspapers (146)

Online (226)

Media appearance breakdown

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JOURNAL ARTICLES 2018 - 2019

1. Swinburn BA, Kraak VI, Allender S, Atkins VJ, Baker PI, Bogard JR, Brinsden H,Calvillo A, De Schutter O, Devarajan R, Ezzati M, Friel S, Goenka S, Hammond RA, Hastings G, Hawkes C, Herrero M, Hovmand PS, Howden M, Jaacks LM, Kapetanaki AB, Kasman M, Kuhnlein HV, Kumanyika SK, Larijani B, Lobstein T, Long MW, Matsudo VKR, Mills SDH, Morgan G, Morshed A, Nece PM, Pan A, Patterson DW, Sacks G,Shekar M, Simmons GL, Smit W, Tootee A, Vandevijvere S, Waterlander WE, Wolfenden L, Dietz WH. The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change: The Lancet Commission report. Lancet. 2019 Feb 23;393(10173):791-846. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32822-8. Epub 2019 Jan 27. Review.

2. Lal A, Mohebi M, Sweeney R, Moodie M, Peeters A, Carter R. Equity Weights for Socioeconomic Position: Two Methods-Survey of Stated Preferences and Epidemiological Data. Value Health. 2019 Feb;22(2):247-253. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2018.07.006. Epub 2018 Aug 28. PubMed PMID: 30711071.

3. Jaacks LM, Vandevijvere S, Pan A, McGowan CJ, Wallace C, Imamura F, Mozaffarian D, Swinburn B, Ezzati M. The obesity transition: stages of the global epidemic. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2019 Mar;7(3):231-240. doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(19)30026-9. Epub 2019 Jan 28. Review. PubMed PMID: 30704950.

4. Huse O, Palermo C, Evans M, Peeters A. Factors influencing healthy eating and physical activity amongst school staff. Health Promot Int. 2019 Jan 21. doi: 10.1093/heapro/day100. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30668683.

5. Hoare E, Crooks N, Hayward J, Allender S, Strugnell C. Associations between combined overweight and obesity, lifestyle behavioural risk and quality of life among Australian regional school children: baseline findings of the Goulburn Valley health behaviours monitoring study. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2019 Jan 18;17(1):16. doi: 10.1186/s12955-019-1086-0. PubMed PMID: 30658630; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6339321.

6. Jacobs J, Alston L, Needham C, Backholer K, Strugnell C, Allender S, Nichols M. Variation in the physical activity environment according to area-level socio-economic position-A systematic review. Obes Rev. 2019 Jan 9. doi: 10.1111/obr.12818. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30624854

7. Vandevijvere S, Barquera S, Caceres G, Corvalan C, Karupaiah T, Kroker-Lobos MF, L’Abbé M, Ng SH, Phulkerd S, Ramirez-Zea M, Rebello SA, Reyes M, Sacks G, Sánchez Nóchez CM, Sanchez K, Sanders D, Spires M, Swart R, Tangcharoensathien V, Tay Z, Taylor A, Tolentino-Mayo L, Van Dam R, Vanderlee L, Watson F, Whitton Swinburn B. An 11-country study to benchmark the implementation of recommended nutrition policies by national governments using the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index, 2015-2018. Obes Rev. 2019 Jan 4. doi: 10.1111/obr.12819. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30609260.

8. Kanter R, Reyes M, Swinburn B, Vandevijvere S, Corvalán C. The Food Supply Prior to the Implementation of the Chilean Law of Food Labeling and Advertising. Nutrients. 2018 Dec 28;11(1). pii: E52. doi: 10.3390/nu11010052. PubMed PMID:30597842; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6356190.

9. McGlashan J, Hayward J, Brown A, Owen B, Millar L, Johnstone M, Creighton D, Allender S. Comparing complex perspectives on obesity drivers: action-driven communities and evidence-oriented experts. Obes Sci Pract. 2018 Nov 22;4(6):575-581. doi: 10.1002/osp4.306. eCollection 2018 Dec. PubMed PMID: 30574350; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6298210.

10. Clarke B, Swinburn B, Sacks G. Understanding Health Promotion Policy Processes: A Study of the Government Adoption of the Achievement Program in Victoria, Australia. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Oct 29;15(11). pii: E2393. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15112393. PubMed PMID: 30380619; PubMed Central

11. Whelan J, Millar L, Bell C, Russell C, Grainger F, Allender S, Love P. You Can’t Find Healthy Food in the Bush: Poor Accessibility, Availability and Adequacy of Food in Rural Australia. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Oct 21;15(10). pii: E2316. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15102316. PubMed PMID: 30347893;

12. Ralston J, Brinsden H, Buse K, Candeias V, Caterson I, Hassell T, Kumanyika S, Nece P, Nishtar S, Patton I, Proietto J, Salas XR, Reddy S, Ryan D, Sharma AM, Swinburn B, Wilding J, Woodward E. Time for a new obesity narrative. Lancet. 2018 Oct 20;392(10156):1384-1386. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32537-6. Epub 2018 Oct 10. PubMed PMID: 30316458.

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13. Ng S, Swinburn B, Kelly B, Vandevijvere S, Yeatman H, Ismail MN, Karupaiah T. Extent of implementation of food environment policies by the Malaysian Government: gaps and priority recommendations. Public Health Nutr. 2018 Dec;21(18):3395-3406. doi: 10.1017/S1368980018002379. Epub 2018 Oct 2.

14. Zorbas C, Palermo C, Chung A, Iguacel I, Peeters A, Bennett R, Backholer K. Factors perceived to influence healthy eating: a systematic review and meta-ethnographic synthesis of the literature. Nutr Rev. 2018 Dec1;76(12):861-874. doi: 10.1093/nutrit/nuy043. PubMed PMID: 30202944.

15. Boelsen-Robinson T, Blake MR, Backholer K, Hettiarachchi J, Palermo C, Peeters A. Implementing healthy food policies in health services: A qualitative study. Nutr Diet. 2018 Aug 30. doi: 10.1111/1747-0080.12471. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30159983.

16. Vandevijvere S, Molloy J, Hassen de Medeiros N, Swinburn B. Unhealthy food marketing around New Zealand schools: a national study. Int J Public Health. 2018 Dec;63(9):1099-1107. doi: 10.1007/s00038-018-1158-7. Epub 2018 Aug 27. PubMed PMID: 30151781.

17. Jacobs J, Peterson KL, Allender S, Alston LV, Nichols M. Regional variation in cardiovascular mortality in Australia 2009-2012: the impact of remoteness and socioeconomic status. Aust N Z J Public Health. 2018 Oct;42(5):467-473. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12807. Epub 2018 Jul 23. PubMed PMID: 30035826.

18. Marks J, Sanigorski A, Owen B, McGlashan J, Millar L, Nichols M, Strugnell C, Allender S. Networks for prevention in 19 communities at the start of a large-scale community-based obesity prevention initiative. Transl Behav Med. 2018 Jul 17;8(4):575-584. doi: 10.1093/tbm/iby026. PubMed PMID: 30016518.

19. Mackay S, Buch T, Vandevijvere S, Goodwin R, Korohina E, Funaki-Tahifote M, Lee A, Swinburn B. Cost and Affordability of Diets Modelled on Current Eating Patterns and on Dietary Guidelines, for New Zealand Total Population, Māori and Pacific Households. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Jun 13;15(6). pii: E1255. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15061255. PubMed PMID: 29899249; PubMed Central

20. Billich N, Blake MR, Backholer K, Cobcroft M, Li V, Peeters A. The effect of sugar-sweetened beverage front-of-pack labels on drink selection, health knowledge and awareness: An online randomised controlled trial. Appetite. 2018 Sep 1; 128:233-241. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.05.149. Epub 2018 Jun 4. PubMed PMID: 29879450.

21. Crino M, Sacks G, Dunford E, Trieu K, Webster J, Vandevijvere S, Swinburn B, Wu JY, Neal B. Measuring the Healthiness of the Packaged Food Supply in Australia. Nutrients. 2018 May 31;10(6). pii: E702. doi: 10.3390/nu10060702. PubMed PMID: 29857517; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6024847.

22. Korn AR, Hennessy E, Hammond RA, Allender S, Gillman MW, Kasman M, McGlashan J, Millar L, Owen B, Pachucki MC, Swinburn B, Tovar A, Economos CD. Development and testing of a novel survey to assess Stakeholder-driven Community Diffusion of childhood obesity prevention efforts. BMC Public Health. 2018 May 31;18(1):681. doi: 10.1186/s12889-018-5588-1. PubMed PMID: 29855295; PubMed

23. Peeters A. Obesity and the future of food policies that promote healthy diets. Nat Rev Endocrinol. 2018 Jul;14(7):430-437. doi:

24. Marks J, de la Haye K, Barnett LM, Allender S. Personal Network Characteristics as Predictors of Change in Obesity Risk Behaviours in Early Adolescence. J Res Adolesc. 2018 May 17.

25. Karacabeyli D, Allender S, Pinkney S, Amed S. Evaluation of complex community-based childhood obesity prevention interventions. Obes Rev. 2018 Aug;19(8):1080-1092. doi: 10.1111/obr.12689. Epub 2018 May 16. Review. PubMed PMID: 29768728.

26. Sweeney R, Moodie M, Nguyen P, Fraser P, Bolton K, Brown A, Marks J, Crooks N, Strugnell C, Bell C, Millar L, Orellana L, Allender S. Protocol for an economic evaluation of WHO STOPS childhood obesity stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open. 2018 May 14;8(5):e020551. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020551. PubMed PMID: 29764881; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5961569.

27. Brown V, Ananthapavan J, Veerman L, Sacks G, Lal A, Peeters A, Backholer K, Moodie M. The Potential Cost-Effectiveness and Equity Impacts of Restricting Television Advertising of Unhealthy Food and Beverages to Australian Children. Nutrients. 2018 May 15;10(5). pii: E622. doi: 10.3390/nu10050622. PubMed PMID:29762517; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5986502.

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28. Marks J, Barnett LM, Allender S. Is school community perception of student weight status a barrier for addressing childhood obesity? Health Promot J Austr. 2019 Jan;30(1):28-36. doi: 10.1002/hpja.172. Epub 2018 May 25. PubMed PMID:29729211.

29. Mahesh R, Vandevijvere S, Dominick C, Swinburn B. Relative contributions of recommended food environment policies to improve population nutrition: results from a Delphi study with international food policy experts. Public Health Nutr. 2018 Aug;21(11):2142-2148. doi: 10.1017/S1368980018001076. Epub 2018 May 2. PubMed PMID: 29717681.

30. McGlashan J, Nichols M, Korn A, Millar L, Marks J, Sanigorski A, Pachucki M, Swinburn B, Allender S, Economos C. Social network analysis of stakeholder networks from two community-based obesity prevention interventions. PLoS One. 2018 Apr 27;13(4): e0196211. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0196211. eCollection 2018. PubMed PMID: 29702660; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5922530.

31. Gearon E, Peeters A, Ng W, Hodge A, Backholer K. Diet and physical activity as possible mediators of the association between educational attainment and body mass index gain among Australian adults. Int J Public Health. 2018 Sep;63(7):883-893. doi: 10.1007/s00038-018-1100-z. Epub 2018 Apr 23. PubMed PMID:29687156.

32. Billich N, Adderley M, Ford L, Keeton I, Palermo C, Peeters A, Woods J, Backholer K. The relative price of healthy and less healthy foods available in Australian school canteens. Health Promot Int. 2018 Apr 12. doi:10.1093/heapro/day025. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29659816.

33. Strugnell C, Orellana L, Hayward J, Millar L, Swinburn B, Allender S. Active (Opt-In) Consent Underestimates Mean BMI-z and the Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity Compared to Passive (Opt-Out) Consent. Evidence from the Healthy Together Victoria and Childhood Obesity Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2018 Apr 13;15(4). pii: E747. doi: 10.3390/ijerph15040747. PubMed PMID: 29652831; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5923789.

34. Vandevijvere S, Aitken C, Swinburn B. Volume, nature and potential impact of advertisements on Facebook and YouTube by food brands popular in New Zealand. N ZMed J. 2018 Apr 13;131(1473):14-24. PubMed PMID: 29649193.

35. Blake MR, Lancsar E, Peeters A, Backholer K. The effect of sugar-sweetened beverage price increases and educational messages on beverage purchasing behaviour among adults. Appetite. 2018 Jul 1;126:156-162. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2018.03.012. Epub 2018 Apr 5. PubMed PMID: 29627346.

36. Iguacel I, Chung A, Gearon E, Moreno LA, Peeters A, Backholer K. Influence of early-life risk factors on socioeconomic inequalities in weight gain. J Public Health (Oxf). 2018 Dec 1;40(4): e447-e455. doi: 10.1093/pubmed/fdy056. PubMed PMID: 29608712.

37. Whelan J, Love P, Millar L, Allender S, Bell C. Sustaining obesity prevention in communities: a systematic narrative synthesis review. Obes Rev. 2018 Jun;19(6):839-851. doi: 10.1111/obr.12675. Epub 2018 Mar 30. Review. PubMed

38. Owen B, Brown AD, Kuhlberg J, Millar L, Nichols M, Economos C, Allender S. Understanding a successful obesity prevention initiative in children under 5 from a systems perspective. PLoS One. 2018 Mar 29;13(3):e0195141. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0195141. eCollection 2018. PubMed PMID: 29596488; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5875853.

39. Brooks R, Backholer K, Chung A, Palermo C, Foulkes C, Monaghan C, Peeters A. Uptake of the Victorian Government school and early childhood service health promotion framework in the City of Greater Geelong according to area-level socioeconomic position. Health Promot J Austr. 2018 Feb 24. doi: 10.1002/hpja.45. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29577478.

40. Chung A, Peeters A, Gearon E, Backholer K. Contribution of discretionary food and drink consumption to socio-economic inequalities in children’s weight: prospective study of Australian children. Int J Epidemiol. 2018 Mar 4. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyy020. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29514246.

41. Rodgers A, Woodward A, Swinburn B, Dietz WH. Prevalence trends tell us what did not precipitate the US obesity epidemic. Lancet Public Health. 2018 Apr;3(4):e162-e163. doi: 10.1016/S2468-2667(18)30021-5. Epub 2018 Mar 1.

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42. Black N, Kung CSJ, Peeters A. For richer, for poorer: the relationship between adolescent obesity and future household economic prosperity. Prev Med. 2018 Jun;111:142-150. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2018.02.034. Epub 2018 Feb 28.

43. Ng WL, Shaw JE, Peeters A. The relationship between excessive daytime sleepiness, disability, and mortality, and implications for life expectancy. Sleep Med. 2018 Mar; 43:83-89. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2017.11.1132. Epub 2017 Dec 6. PubMed PMID: 29482819.Lal A, Siahpush M, Moodie M, Peeters A, Carter R. Weighting Health Outcomes by Socioeconomic Position Using Stated Preferences. Pharmacoecon Open. 2018 Mar;2(1):43-51. doi: 10.1007/s41669-017-0036-1. PubMed PMID: 29464669; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5820237.

44. Vandevijvere S, Young N, Mackay S, Swinburn B, Gahegan M. Modelling the cost differential between healthy and current diets: the New Zealand case study. Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2018 Feb 9;15(1):16. doi: 10.1186/s12966-018-0648-6. PubMed PMID: 29426334; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5807767.

45. Vandevijvere S, Mackay S, Swinburn B. Measuring and stimulating progress on implementing widely recommended food environment policies: the New Zealand case study. Health Res Policy Syst. 2018 Jan 25;16(1):3. doi: 10.1186/s12961-018-0278-0. PubMed PMID: 29370804; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5785861.

46. Vandevijvere S, Waterlander W, Molloy J, Nattrass H, Swinburn B. Towards healthier supermarkets: a national study of in-store food availability, prominence and promotions in New Zealand. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2018 Jul;72(7):971-978. doi: 10.1038/s41430-017-0078-6. Epub 2018 Jan 18. PubMed

47. Malakellis M, Hoare E, Sanigorski A, Crooks N, Allender S, Nichols M, Swinburn B, Chikwendu C, Kelly PM, Petersen S, Millar L. Authors’ response to Letter to the Editor: ANZJPH-2017-220. Aust N Z J Public Health. 2018 Apr;42(2):215. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.12767. Epub 2017 Dec 27. PubMed PMID: 29281167.

48. Gearon E, Tanamas SK, Stevenson C, Loh VHY, Peeters A. Changes in waist circumference independent of weight: Implications for population level monitoring of obesity. Prev Med. 2018 Jun;111: 378-383. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2017.11.030. Epub 2017 Dec 1. PubMed PMID: 29199118.

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COMMITTEES AND ADVISORY GROUPS

Academy of Science Theo Murphy Think Tank

Active Geelong Board

Advisory or Steering Committee

Australian Health Policy Collaboration

Australian Health Policy Collaboration for prevention of non-communicable diseases Australian Institute of Health and Welfare obesity report

Australian Medical Association

Barwon Health Population Health and Primary Care Committee

Cardiovascular Health Collaboration

Department of Public Health

Deputy Director Deakin Population Health Strategic Research Centre

International Congress on Obesity Awards Committee

International Journal of Obesity

International Network for Food and Obesity / NCDs Research, Monitoring and Action Support (INFORMAS)

International Society for Epidemiology and Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease

Kardinia Health Research Committee

Lancet Commission on Obesity

National Heart Foundation Health Professionals Scholarship review panel

National Heart Foundation Fellowship review panel

New Zealand Health Research Council grant review panel

NSW Health Healthy Food Provision Policy

Obesity Australia Board

Obesity Policy Coalition Steering Committee

Obesity Science and Clinical Research Practice

Pacific Research Centre for Obesity and Non-Communicable Diseases, Suva, Fiji

Parent’s Jury Steering Committee

PHAA Food and Nutrition Special Interest Group Executive Committee

Scaling Up SCOPE’s Live 5-2-1-0 Initiative

VicHealth Nutrition Advisory Group

Victorian Department of Health and Human Services Achievement Program for Universities

Victorian Department of Health and Human Services workshop on progress indicators for healthy population diets

Victorian Government WorkHealth Advisory Group

Victorian Stroke Telehealth Financial Sustainability Working Group

Victorian Stroke Telehealth Program Research and Evaluation Working Group

Western Pacific Regional Network for the implementation of the WHO’s Ending Childhood Obesity plan

World Cancer Research Fund Policy Advisory Group

World Obesity Federation International Congress on Obesity Liaison Committee

World Obesity Federation Policy & Prevention Scientific and Technical Advisory Network (STAN)

World Obesity Presidential Nominations Committee

Members of GLOBE contribute to the following committees and advisory groups:

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PARTNERS AND COLLABORATORS

ACT Health

Asian Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health

Brookings Institute

Cancer Council Victoria

City of Greater Bendigo

City of Greater Geelong

Colac Area Health

Colac Corangamite Network of Schools

Corangamite

Department of Education and Training (DET)

Department of Health

Department of Health and Human Services

Diabetes Australia, Victoria

Drexel University

East Gippsland PCP

Erasmus MC

Fiji National University

Food and Agriculture Organisation

Geelong Medical and Hospital Benefits Association (GMHBA)

George Institute for Global Health

Glenelg Shire Council

Great South Coast Group

Harvard University

IGA – Bendigo

International Network for Food and Obesity/Non-Com-municable Diseases Research, Monitoring and Action Support (INFORMAS)

John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Madras Diabetes Research Foundation

MANA

Monash University

National Heart Foundation

NHMRC

NSW Department of Education

NSW Health

Nutrition Australia

Obesity Policy Coalition

Pacific Research Centre For The Prevention Of Obesity And Non-Communicable Diseases (CPOND)

Portland Department of Health and Human Services

Portland District Health

Portland Hamilton Principal Network of Schools

Public Health Institute of India

Rural North West Hospital

Sax Institute

South West Primary Care Partnership

Southern Grampians Glenelg Primary Care

Partnership Southern Grampians Shire Council

Teachers Health

The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre (TAPPC)

Tufts University

United Nations Development Programme

University of Auckland

University of Oxford

University of Queensland

University of South Australia

University of Southern California

University of Sydney

VicHealth

Victorian Department of Education and Training

Victorian Department of Health and Human Services

Wannon Water

Warrnambool and District Principals Network

Washington University

Western Alliance

Western District Health Service

WHO WPRO Region

World Cancer Research Fund International

World Health Organisation

World Heart Federation

World Obesity Federation

Wyndham Leisure Services

Yarriambiack Shire

YMCA Victoria

GLOBE would like to thank the following partners and collaborators:

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