A beloved laugh will be missing from the halls of the UNC Center of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP).  Wanda Hunter, HPDP’s deputy director for research and operations, retired November 30.  The Center celebrated her career and service with … Read more

The UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) is pleased to welcome its first Public Health Prevention Specialist from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Melissa Cunningham will spend two years working with both HPDP and … Read more

Do you know where your Thanksgiving turkey is coming from? A statewide effort to build North Carolina’s food economy can help identify resources to keep your Thanksgiving menu close to home. The 10% Campaign, coordinated by the Center for Environmental … Read more

HPDP Research Fellow Marci Campbell, who leads the HOPE projects and is a professor of nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, discusses how consumers often confuse eating healthy foods with healthy eating in the Wall Street … Read more

Rural African-American teens face a future with high rates of chronic disease. Combined with limited opportunities for job growth and health care, these factors lead youth to grasp the first opportunity to leave their hometowns and seek employment elsewhere, often … Read more

HPDP Research Fellow Laura Linnan, associate professor of health behavior and health education at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, will collaborate with David Jolley, associate professor and chair of health education at North Carolina Central University (NCCU), … Read more

International cancer experts got a taste of North Carolina and the strides UNC cancer researchers have made in recent years during the Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network (CPCRN) meeting in Chapel Hill last week. The CPCRN is a national … Read more

More than 1 million Americans have been diagnosed with colon cancer, and colon cancer survivors are the third largest group of cancer survivors in the country. Cancer patients often receive an abundance of care and support during their treatment, but … Read more

Local food has become very trendy.  There are plenty of good arguments in favor of the local food movement, many regarding protecting the environment and a way of life for small farmers.  But does eating locally grown foods benefit our … Read more

HPDP Research Fellow Debra Barksdale, an associate professor in the School of Nursing, was appointed on September 23rd to Board of Governors for the new Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).  Barksdale is one of 19 members appointed to the board … Read more