Interrogating the Health Star Rating, with Dr. Alexandra Jones

Public Health Nutrition from Foodies in the Field

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

This episode dives deep into the world of food policy and regulation, as Ali explains Front of Pack Labelling around the world with a particular focus on the Australian Health Star Rating. We talk about how this regulatory mechanism came about, how effective its been and what needs to happen to make it better for population health into the future.

For further information, check out Ali's researcher profile at the George Institute; and Linked In and Twitter pages.
Key links related to this episode

• Health Star Rating website, and 5-year review
• FoodSwitch website (and app for Apple & Android)
• Defining ‘Unhealthy’: A Systematic Analysis of Alignment between the Australian Dietary Guidelines and the Health Star Rating System (Jones et al., 2018)
• The performance and potential of the Australasian Health Star Rating system: a four‐year review using the RE‐AIM framework (Jones et al., 2019)
• Front-of-pack nutrition labelling to promote healthier diets: current practice and opportunities to strengthen regulation worldwide (Jones et al., 2019)
• An 18-country analysis of the effectiveness of five front-of-pack nutrition labels (Pettigrew et al., 2023)

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Host: Sophie Wright-Pedersen
With thanks to Dr Alexandra Jones for her time and thoughts
The Foodies in the Field podcast would like to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast was made, the Turrbal and Yuggera people of Meanjin, as well as the lands from where Ali was speaking from and where you may be listening from today. We pay respects to elders both past and present and acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were the first foodies of this nation where food systems, knowledge and practices have always been deeply embedded in this country long before colonisation.

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