Category: Additional Topics
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
Sustainable agriculture grows at HPDP this spring
February 9, 2009In keeping with its mission to reduce heath disparities, the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) is investigating the links between local sustainable food systems and health. … Read more