John Coveney is Professor of Global Food, Culture and Health in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University, Australia. He has also worked as a nutritionist and dietitian addressing regional, indigenous and international health issues, and his work has been used by policy makers seeking to understand the role of food in family life. His research interests include the history of food, public health, nutrition, food policy, and the social and cultural factors that influence food consumption. He is author of Food, Morals and Meaning: The Pleasure and Anxiety of Eating (Routledge, Second Edition, 2006) and co-author of Food Democracy: From Consumer to Food Citizen (2015). He is also co-editor of Food Poverty and Insecurity: International Food Inequalities (2015) and Handbook of Food Security and Society (2023).