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Mapping Local Food Environments with Northeastern Public Health Unit (NEPHU)

BySustain Team

Sustain partnered with the Northeastern Public Health Unit (NEPHU) to map local food environments across ten councils in Melbourne’s north and north-east. The project identified inequities in access to healthy, affordable, and culturally appropriate food and provided councils with detailed data and interactive mapping tools to inform planning and policy. 

Building on NEPHU’s Local Food Environments Summary Report (September 2025), Sustain hosted two national Mapping Webinars attended by more than 200 participants from councils, public health units, and universities. 

As a result, most participating councils have now embedded food system actions into their Municipal Public Health and Wellbeing Plans (2025–2029). The project has strengthened regional collaboration, created a shared evidence base for decision-making, and supported NEPHU’s goal of advancing health equity and sustainable food systems across the region.

Learn more about our mapping services here. 

Sustain Team

Sustain is a “think and do” network, specialising in designing and building sustainable and healthy food systems. We work with governments, councils, and community leaders to help map local food systems, and develop evidence-based and achievable policies and programs. We sow the seeds of change with events, policy work, practice & thought leadership, capacity building, and collective action. We give people, councils, and organisations the tools they need to help them become empowered food citizens, supporting healthy communities, people and ecosystems.

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