Author Details Cost and affordability of healthy food in rural South Australia Paul Ward1 PhD, Professor, paul.ward@flinders.edu.au John Coveney2 PhD, Professor, head.fppphc@flinders.edu.au Fiona Verity3 PhD, Professor, fiona.verity@flinders.edu.au Patricia Carter4 MNutr, Nutritionist, patricia.carter@sa.health.gov.au Michelle Schilling5 MNutr, Advanced clinical lead dietician, michelle.schilling@health.sa.gov.au 1, 2 Discipline of Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. 3 School of Social and Policy Studies, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. 4 Health Promotion Branch, SA Health, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. 5 Country Health SA, SA Health, Port Lincoln, South Australia, Australia. Correspondence: P Ward, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA, Australia  Author contribution: Paul R Ward: original concept, designed the project, supervised data collection, statistical analysis, wrote the first draft. John Coveney: original concept, designed the project, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts. Fiona Verity: original concept, designed the project, supervised data collection, contributed to drafts. Patricia Carter: supervised data collection, contributed to drafts. Michelle Schilling: supervised data collection, contributed to drafts. Citation: Ward PR, Coveney J, Verity F, Carter P, Schilling M.  Cost and affordability of healthy food in rural South Australia. Rural and Remote Health 12: 1938. (Online) 2012. Available: http://www.rrh.org.au Received: 26 September 2011 Revised: 30 November 2011 Accepted: 23 April 2012