DrMiranda Blake

Food policy

Healthy food retail

Commercial determinants of health

Obesity prevention

Implementation science

Key projects include:

NHMRC Partnership Project- Promoting CHANGE (Community Health, and Nutrition and Government Engagement) to promote healthy food environments in local government-owned facilities

CREATE project partnering with Health and Wellbeing Queensland to trial tools to support health promotion practitioners and retailers to make healthy food changes in hospital food outlets.

Cafe Scout online survey tool to help café, kiosk, and canteen owners and staff, as well as researchers and public health practitioners, evaluate how effectively food outlets promote healthier customer food and drink purchases. Café Scout provides instant feedback, scores and practical strategies to help food outlets improve the availability and marketing of nutritious options. 

Water in Sport initiative to reduce the availability of sugary drinks in sporting facilities

Systems Thinking Approach for Retail Transformation (START) map which supports researchers and health promotion practitioners to identify key opportunities and points of tension in the implementation of healthy food retail initiatives

NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence for Food Retail Environments for Health (RE-FRESH: Next Generation), Chief Investigator and Stream co-lead for "Supporting retailers to implement sustained healthy food retail initiatives at scale"