Meaghan Christian

PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology. Passionate about childhood nutrition, obesity prevention and public health.

[Monash Nutrition @MonashNutrition]

6/This work highlights the power of practical tools like the Store Scout App to support meaningful, community-led change—one shelf at a time.

[Monash Nutrition @MonashNutrition]

5/Findings show the Store Scout App was well-received by nutritionists and stores. Retailers valued its clear, practical feedback; nutrition professionals reported stronger partnerships and greater capacity to support healthier store practices.

[Monash Nutrition @MonashNutrition]

4/After 4 months, Store Scout practice scores improved overall and across food categories. The app showed promise as a scalable tool for ongoing monitoring and quality improvement, supporting nutrition policy aligned with financial and cultural contexts

[Monash Nutrition @MonashNutrition]

3/The Store Scout App is a decision-support tool that:
✅ Assesses store practices
✅ Gives real-time, evidence-based feedback
✅ Supports co-designed improvements
It enables targeted change in remote food retail—e.g. move sweets away from checkout

[Monash Nutrition @MonashNutrition]

2/ Monash University used a co-designed approach to collaborate with nutrition professionals and remote retailers in trialling the Store Scout App—a tool to assess and enhance health-enabling retail practices.

[Monash Nutrition @MonashNutrition]

1/Remote Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander community stores play a vital role in shaping local food environments. Our work explored how nutrition professionals can support retailers to implement best-practice health strategies via the Store Scout App🔗 https://t.co/vfvJiryOJI

[Liza Barbour @Liza_R_Barbour]

Due to popular demand, our #publichealthnutrition lunchbox seminar series is back! 🤗

Join @FoodForAllJulie @SueKleve @DrMSChristian @deanaleahy Anna and I for three insightful mini-presentations followed by a thought-provoking panel discussion.

⬇️ Rego link below ⬇️

[Monash Nutrition @MonashNutrition]

Be part of an exciting project capturing information on local food environments to inform and support local governments capacity to strengthen local equitable food systems.

Apply for Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours) - Nutrition Discipline
➡https://t.co/zye0nPwroM

[Miranda Blake @MirandaRBlake]

Fantastic leadership by ALPA & research #cocreation by @FoodForAllJulie and team- Healthy Stores 2020 reducing sales of sugar in remote stores thru $, sizing and placement policies 👏👏👏. If only we could replicate this around the world! #ICO2022

[Meaghan Christian @DrMSChristian]

An outstanding presentation. Well done Khia De Silva. #Ico2020

[Miranda Blake @MirandaRBlake]

@h_food_retail @carmenv678 @DrMSChristian @TaraBoelsenR @meg_ferg_uson @FoodForAllJulie Fantastic to see the packed room this morning for our symposium!

[Sue Kleve @SueKleve]

👏👏@crndvs on sharing your mixed method review findings.

[Sue Kleve @SueKleve]

🧵1/7 Proud to share our latest paper exploring the #prevalence, severity, coping strategies and precipitating factors of #foodinsecurity in #unistudents during the #COVID19 lockdown in 2020.
➡️https://t.co/p7bV512DEs
#university #foodsecurity #mentalhealth #Publichealth

[Meaghan Christian @DrMSChristian]

Excited to say I was involved in this real piece of work.

[Carmen Vargas @carmenv678]

Thinking on Co‐creation for the past two years and here we are. A systematic review to explore the type of stakeholders and their motivations and stage of engagement in food retail environments. @JillWhelan3 @allendersteve https://t.co/endM9fSkI9

[Monash Nutrition @MonashNutrition]

🚨HEALTHY STORiES = GOOD FOOD Webinar 1🚨

Join us with @KarenSheldonNT to learn how healthy ready made meals are supplied to remote community takeaway stores and generating #employment.

Thursday 3 June 2021
11:30 -12:30pm (AEDT)
Register: https://t.co/cfqX4TeMyZ

[Meaghan Christian @DrMSChristian]

Nicely said @baritacardoso

[Dr Barbara R Cardoso @baritacardoso]

Promoting healthy food choices is not only about advocating for healthy food, but also limiting advertisement of unhealthy food. Fantastic work by @FoodForAllJulie & colleagues proves that it’s imperative to restrict promotion of sugar-sweetened drinks in the supermarkets.

[Assoc./Prof Tracy McCaffrey (she/her) @DrTMcCaffrey]

@MonashNutrition @TheLancetPlanet @SandroDemaio @NACCHOChair @SamHarkus @indigenous_gov @NACCHOAustralia @AMSANTaus @LowitjaInstitut @SugarByHalf @jpatto12 @FoodForAllJulie PING @DrShaneRRR you might like to speak with @FoodForAllJulie about the #HealthyStores2020 project https://t.co/0AFZEHHB6q

[Monash Nutrition @MonashNutrition]

Finally we have the evidence to support the restriction of promotion of sugar-sweetened drinks from @FoodForAllJulie and the #HealthyStores2020 team

Learn more at: https://t.co/iFUUyUDvQC

[Monash Nutrition @MonashNutrition]

Healthy Stores 2020: Rethinking the food focus for Indigenous communities https://t.co/xVSAocnUzT #MonashLens @FoodForAllJulie @MonashUni

[Monash Nutrition @MonashNutrition]

⬇ merchandising of unhealthy food/drinks w/ store directors to ⬇ #discretionaryfood purchases is a step toward Aboriginal & #TorresStraitIslanders #HealthEquity

#HealthyStores2020 published in @TheLancetPlanet ⬇ purchasing of #highsugar food/drinks in remote #communitystores