Category: Cancer Prevention and Control
New website provides a one-stop shop for UNC-developed health promotion interventions and resources
February 11, 2015UNC’s Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) recently launched Research4NC. This new website centralizes health promotion and disease prevention programs and resources that UNC rese … Read more
Counter Tobacco’s Point-of-sale Photo Contest
August 15, 2014Counter Tobacco launched their third annual photo contest yesterday. Each year, Counter Tobacco holds a photo contest encouraging the public to use their mobile devices to capture the tobacco industr … Read more
Tobacco cessation research provides resources for policymakers and practitioners
November 22, 2013On October 30, the New York City Council passed new legislation raising the minimum age to buy cigarettes from 18 to 21. HPDP Research Fellow Kurt Ribisl and project manager Ashley Leighton submitted … Read more
Internet Cigarette Vendor study featured on PRC website
May 20, 2013The UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention’s Internet Cigarette Vendor (ICV) study was featured on the CDC website in April as part of National Cancer Control month. The CDC cited the … Read more
New study will evaluate if technology, system protocols, and training can reduce differences in cancer care between African American and white patients
September 24, 2012A five-year national study now underway in Greensboro, N.C., and Pittsburgh attempts to determine whether technology and other tools can ensure that African-Americans being treated for breast and lung … Read more
Leeman named new director of HPDP Dissemination and Communications Core
April 20, 2012The UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention announces Jennifer Leeman, Dr.PH., as the new director of HPDP Dissemination and Communications Core. Leeman also recently became principal i … Read more
Remembering longtime partner and friend Nettie Coad
April 14, 2012Nettie Coad, a longtime community partner and friend of the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) and a leader in the Greensboro community for more than 30 years, died April 10 … Read more
Kurt Ribisl Named HBHE Teacher of the Year
February 6, 2012HPDP is proud to announce that Kurt Ribisl has been named the Health Behavior and Health Education Teacher of the Year. Ribisl has been selected by the students of HBHE as the faculty member “who imp … Read more
New research study examines behavioral economics of colorectal cancer screening in underserved populations
January 26, 2012A new study at UNC Chapel Hill will examine behavioral factors influence low-income people to pursue colorectal cancer screening and what strategies could increase screening rates in disadvantaged com … Read more
Marci Campbell, HOPE projects leader, dies
December 14, 2011Marci Campbell, PhD, professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, died Dec. 14 after living with cancer with grace and caring for almost two year … Read more