Tanita Northcott

Biographic Data

ID6535023
NAMETanita Northcott
GIVEN NAMESTanita
FAMILY NAMENorthcott
SIGNATURENORTHCOTT T
AFFILIATIONSDeakin University
ORCID0000-0002-0834-1729
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Ultra-Processed Food ‘Fetishism’ is Undermining Efforts Seeking Healthy, Equitable, and Sustainable Diets Globally

    Open AccessBenjamin Wood, Benjamin D K Wood et al.ARTICLEFood Ethics2026

    Calls have been growing for government interventions to address diets high in ultra-processed foods (i.e., ultra-processed diets), which are associated with a large and rising burden of preventable death and disease. To date, however, government action relating to ultra-processed foods (UPFs) has been mostly insufficient. In this paper, we argue that one of the key reasons behind this lacklustre response has been the dominance of ‘UPF fetishism’ …

  • Unhealthy food advertising on social media

    Open AccessTanita Northcott, Katherine Sievert et al.ARTICLEHealth Promotion International2025

    The World Health Organization and public health experts are calling for urgent restrictions on the online marketing of unhealthy food. The harmful effects of exposure to advertising for ‘unhealthy foods’, including discretionary foods high in fat, salt or sugar, particularly for children, has prompted a proposed policy action in Australia to prohibit all online unhealthy food marketing. We used a novel data donation infrastructure, the Australian…

  • The role of policy actors’ belief systems and interests in framing public health nutrition problems

    Open AccessPatricia Ribeiro De Melo, Phillip Baker et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2025

    Objective: This study investigated how the belief systems and interests of policy actors shaped their framing of the causes and solutions to obesity and how this influenced policy recommendations. Design: Submissions to the Select Committee on Obesity Epidemic in Australia (SCOEA) were collected, and actors were classified according to their interests in commercial and non-commercial groups. A framework grounded in social constructionism was used…

  • Ecological regulation for healthy and sustainable food systems

    Open AccessTanita Northcott, Mark Lawrence et al.ARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2023Cited by: 2References: 9

    Many are calling for transformative food systems changes to promote population and planetary health. Yet there is a lack of research that considers whether current food policy frameworks and regulatory approaches are suited to tackle whole of food systems challenges. One such challenge is responding to the rise of ultra-processed foods (UPF) in human diets, and the related harms to population and planetary health. This paper presents a narrative …