Category: Additional Topics
Free environmental justice workshop
March 30, 2011A free and interactive training on successful strategies to advocate for environmental equity will be offered twice during the month of April. The workshops will feature Naeema Muhammad, who works wit … Read more
HPDP partner offers help for a locally sourced Thanksgiving menu
November 23, 2010Do 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% C … Read more
Innovative study seeks to reconnect youth with farming
November 3, 2010Rural 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 opportuni … Read more
Ammerman to discuss link between sustainable local food systems and health Thursday
October 11, 2010Local 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 eat … Read more
HPDP mourns death of former advisor
August 23, 2010Mary Bobbitt-Cooke, retired director of the NC Office of Healthy Carolinians and Health Education and former member of the HPDP Scientific Advisory Council, died on Thursday, August 19 at her home in … Read more
Researcher seeks improved assessment for domestic violence programs
March 23, 2010A new UNC HPDP Research Fellow is working to develop a new way to measure hospital-based domestic violence programs through a grant funded by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Economi … Read more
Ammerman’s work in local foods highlighted
March 15, 2010There’s been a lot of buzz recently about the innovative approaches Alice Ammerman and her colleagues are taking in the area of local, sustainable agriculture. Ammerman is the director of the UNC Cent … Read more
New catering guide emphasizes vendors’ commitment to using local foods
March 15, 2010A new catering guide will help event organizers at UNC Chapel Hill to find food vendors who strive to use local foods and farm products as much as possible. Researchers at the UNC Center for Health Pr … Read more
Study: digging in beach sand increases risk of gastrointestinal illness
July 20, 2009Chris 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. U … Read more
Ammerman keynote speaker at Australian conferences
July 13, 2009HPDP 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 Institut … Read more