Category: Diabetes
Berkowitz receives R01 grant to help advance health equity in type 2 diabetes care
November 8, 2021A research team led by Seth A. Berkowitz, MD, MPH has received a five-year, nearly $3 million R01 award from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to better understand how addressing health-related s … Read more
Samuel-Hodge wins inaugural Gillings Faculty Award for Excellence in Health Equity Research
October 28, 2020Carmen Samuel-Hodge, PhD, RD has been selected as the recipient of the inaugural Gillings Faculty Award for Excellence in Health Equity Research. Samuel-Hodge is an associate professor of nutrition at … Read more
UNC receives $3.8 million grant to study innovative weight loss program for primary care patients
June 10, 2019The Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a five-year, $3.8 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institut … Read more
Samuel-Hodge receives the Harriet Hylton Barr Distinguished Alumni Award
April 23, 2018Carmen Samuel-Hodge, PhD, is the 2018 Barr awardee. Samuel-Hodge, who earned a doctorate in nutrition in 2000 at the Gillings School, joined the Gillings School faculty in 2003. She has won a number o … Read more
Help from a family member can help adults with type 2 diabetes lose weight and manage their health
February 1, 2017CHAPEL HILL, NC – Working with a family member can help adults with type 2 diabetes lose weight and improve their health, according to a UNC study published in the January 2017 issue of Obesity. Famil … Read more
HPDP receives $1.5 million to develop diabetes self-management education toolkit
November 21, 2016CHAPEL HILL, NC – The Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP), a CDC Prevention Research Center, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill was awarded a $1.5 million contrac … Read more
UNC Chapel Hill-RTI Collaboration Chosen as Prime Contractor to Support State and Local Public Health Actions to Prevent Chronic Disease and Promote School Health
March 9, 2015A research collaboration between the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) and RTI International has been selected as a prime contractor to support state and local public healt … Read more
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
Study aims at improving health of American Indians
October 11, 2012American Indian children have a far greater risk of developing childhood obesity and type 2 diabetes than any other ethnic group in the United States. But little attention has been focused on the oppo … Read more
New UNC center for diabetes seeks to reduce health disparities
September 27, 2011HPDP Director Alice Ammerman will collaborate with researchers at the NC TraCS Institute to connect the new UNC Center for Diabetes Translation Research to Reduce Health Disparities (CTDR) with commun … Read more