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About us
Reimagining public food spending to be in service of people, place and planet
$2.13 billion is spent on public food every year, with no national standard guiding where it goes. GFPA launched in April 2026 to close that gap.
How we work
Three interconnected pillars, each strengthening each other
1

Policy and Systems Reform
Engaging government at every level to embed good food purchasing in legislation and policy.

2

Coalition and Movement Building
Bringing advocates across nature, farming,  local economies and health together to push for better purchasing.

3

Place-Based Practice and Demonstration
Working with regions and actors to put good food purchasing into practice and building models others can adapt.

Our theory of change
ACTIVITIES
Grow the Alliance, communicate publicly, enable local action, transform insight to policy
 
OUTPUTS
A unified coalition, informed decision makers, empowered citizens, evidence-driven demonstration
OUTCOMES
Food procurement in policy, capital flowing to gaps, purpose-driven practice, shifting expectations
IMPACT
Systemic transformation, equitable access to food, a resilient food system
Who leads GFPA
Leah Galvin
Knowledge and Practice Lead
Churchill Fellow, public health nutritionist with extensive experience in public food procurement and enabling localised and thriving food systems
Dheepa Jeyapalan
Partnerships and Policy Lead
Dietitian and public health practitioner with deep food systems and community engagement expertise 
The report's wider project team
Transforming the Public Plate was developed by a wider alliance of researchers, policy leads and practitioners across the sector. 
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Emma-Kate Rose
PROJECT MANAGER
Co-CEO
Food Connect Foundation
Dr Stephanie Godrich
POLICY LEAD
Senior Lecturer
Edith Cowan University
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Dr Joanna Horton
MAPPING LEAD
Postdoctoral fellow
University of Queensland
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Dr Rachel Carey
PEER REVIEWER & ADVISOR
Senior Lecturer
University of Melbourne
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Holley Jones
PEER REVIEWER 
Public Health Nutritionist
Our Home

GFPA is incubated at Food Connect Foundation, auspisced by Sustainable Table and working towards becoming an independent organisation

Resourcing

We are grateful to the Macdoch Foundation for resourcing the development of Transforming the Public Plate and catalysing the funding of GFPA. 

FOR FUNDERS AND INVESTORS
An oppportunity to reshape Australia's food system

Be part of a growing coalition of funders who are recognising that public food procurement is a critical lever for transforming food systems, local economies and the health of our communities. 

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