Category: Children’s Health
Food for All Partnership convenes urgent meeting about COVID-19 impact on food systems
March 20, 2020UNC-Chapel Hill’s Food for All Partnership convened an urgent virtual meeting on March 18 to discuss the impact of COVID-19 on food systems in North Carolina and potential responses. The partnership i … Read more
Soldavini receives inaugural UNCG/NCCC Engaged Scholarship Prize
March 19, 2020Jessica Soldavini, MPH, RD, LDN, is the winner of the UNCG/NCCC inaugural Engaged Scholarship Prize in the graduate student category. Soldavini is a graduate research assistant with No Kid Hungry Nort … Read more
Soldavini receives two-year predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture
October 7, 2019Jessica Soldavini, a graduate research assistant at the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP), has received a prestigious predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill’s NAPSACC program receives national recognition as “best evidence for impact” on childhood obesity
May 23, 2019A March 2019 brief by Healthy Eating Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, states that NAPSACC has the “best evidence for impact” on obesity prevention in young children. … Read more
N.C. Child Hunger Leaders Conference connects nutrition, health, and education
February 20, 2019Nearly 350 people gathered in Chapel Hill on February 13, 2019 for the North Carolina Child Hunger Leaders Conference, where the theme this year was “Use Your Voice: Stories and Strategies to Feed Mor … Read more
Eight states join Go NAPSACC, UNC-Chapel Hill’s web-based health promotion tool for child care programs
January 11, 2019Chapel Hill, NC – In 2019, Go NAPSACC will be in 20 states working to improve the health of young children. Developed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Go NAPSACC is an online … Read more
UNC at Chapel Hill researchers partner with Kentucky to address early childhood obesity with $3 million grant
September 25, 2018Chapel Hill, NC – The Children’s Healthy Weight Research Group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is partnering with the University of Kentucky and the Kentucky Department for Public H … Read more
Children’s Healthy Weight Research Group hosts visit from Australian research fellow
March 29, 2018The Children’s Healthy Weight Research (CHWR) group was fortunate to host a visit from Dr. Serene Yoong, a post-doctoral research fellow from the School of Medicine and Public Health at The University … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill receives grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to help child care bring fresh and local foods to children
March 16, 2018Chapel Hill, NC – New resources for child care programs from the nationally recognized Go NAPSACC platform will incorporate the elements of farm-to-table eating starting in March 2018. Researchers wi … Read more
Go NAPSACC Launches Oral Health Tools to Assist Child Care Providers
November 21, 2017Tooth decay, the most common chronic childhood disease, can affect overall health. Chapel Hill, NC – UNC Chapel Hill’s Go NAPSACC (GNS) announces an addition to its online program to help child care p … Read more