A July 20 article in The New Yorker discussing obesity in America featured Eric Finkelstein’s 2008 book, The Fattening of America. The book examines how the decrease in cost of fattening foods relates to increased obesity rates since the 1980s. … Read more
Highly active antiretroviral drugs are safe and effective in preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission through breast milk, a study based at the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention has found. Principal investigator Charlie van der Horst presented findings from … Read more
Chris Heaney, who will be a Kellogg Health Scholar at HPDP beginning this fall, published a study examining the health risks of playing in beach sand in the American Journal of Epidemiology in July. UNC release: https://uncnewsarchive.unc.edu/2009/07/20/carolina-in-the-news-monday-july-20-2009-2/ NY Times article … Read more
HPDP Director Alice Ammerman traveled to Australia in early July to be a part of two conferences addressing sustainable agriculture and health. She was a keynote speaker at the Home Economics Institute of Australia conference Daring to Dream- Preferred Futures … Read more
The UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention is co-sponsoring the 15th Annual Summer Public Health Research Videoconference on Minority Health on June 9. This year’s conference theme is “Breaking the Cycle: Investigating the Intersection of Educational Inequities and … Read more
June 3, 2009 Picture Me Healthy: Photo-Based Inquiry for Youth Expression Informs Policy and Environmental Change Lara Khalil, MPH, RD, Project Director for Healthy Eating Research Participants took photographs in various environments to illustrate perceived barriers and facilitators to being … Read more
On April 29, as UNC’s academic year drew to a close, the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) celebrated its student research assistants with an ice cream social. Organized by HPDP Research Scientist Lisa Pullen-Davis, and the student … Read more
The UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) will continue to be a part of a major federal network of prevention research centers until at least 2014. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) invited HPDP to … Read more
Pictures often express what words cannot quite communicate. HPDP researchers are using the photovoice method to work with communities and offer training to other researchers and community members. Photovoice is a community-based participatory research (CBPR) method that puts cameras into … Read more
On February 27, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host the largest and oldest student-run conference addressing minority health issues in the nation. Two students working with the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) … Read more
