Mission

To share learnings and ideas on how communities can move to healthier food provision in supermarket shopping environments. The team is closely linked with research, and is focused on the practical elements of support for communities, such as partnership formation.

About

The Healthy Supermarkets Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of practitioners working with supermarkets who come together to share learnings and ideas about creating healthier supermarket shopping environments offering nutritious, culturally appropriate, and local environmentally sustainable food.

It was established by Healthy Greater Bendigo and is currently led by VicHealth based on high levels of interest in the Eat Well @ IGA project and the growing number of practitioners. The Community of Practice includes members from local and state government, community health and research institutions from Australia and NZ, and meets quarterly. We hope to grow the Community of Practice and look forward to working together to support healthier food environments in communities.

Read case studies describing the Eat Well @ IGA Bendigo project here and the Eat Well Feel Good Ballarat project here or learn more at the VicHealth Future Healthy wesbite here.

Upcoming Events

Join us for the next meeting of the Healthy Supermarkets Community of Practice in October. Email to register: healthyfoodsystems@vichealth.vic.gov.au

Past Events

See below link to a recording of the Community of Practice event, held online on 27/07/23:

Slides from the event are available to download: Healthy Supermarkets Community of Practice_27 Jul 2023

See below link to a recording of the Community of Practice event, held online on 27/04/23:

Slides from the event are available to download: Healthy Supermarkets Community of Practice, April – slide deck

See below link to a recording of the Community of Practice event, held online on 16/02/23:

Slides from the event are available to download: Healthy Supermarkets Community of Practice Feb 2023

See below link to a recording of the Community of Practice event, held online on 25/10/22:

Slides from the event are available to download: Healthy Supermarkets Community of Practice Oct 2022

See below link to a recording of the Community of Practice event held online on 28/07/22:

Slides from the event are available to download: Healthy Supermarkets Community of Practice July 2022

See below link to a recording of the Community of Practice event held online on 28/04/22:

Slides from the event are available to download: Healthy Supermarkets Community of Practice, April 2022

Membership

Healthy Supermarkets Community of Practice Facilitators 

Dheepa Jeyapalan – VicHealth
Stephanie Kilpatrick -VicHealth
Veronica Nunez – VicHealth
Julian Fang – VicHealth
Victoria Hobbs – Deakin University
Adrian Cameron – Deakin University

If you are interested in joining this Community of Practice or have any questions, please get in touch.

Contact Healthy Supermarkets CoP