Category: Healthy Food Access
HPDP Researchers Taillie and Ammerman Receive EPA Grant to Prevent Household Food Waste
April 5, 2023HPDP Research Fellow Lindsey Smith Taillie, PhD, and HPDP Director Alice Ammerman, DrPH, have received a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to help households, especially low-income … Continued
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 … Continued
Blue Cross NC, UNC Health join forces to improve food security
September 23, 2021With $3.2 million in funding from Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, a group of researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill is leading a new, large clinical study to address food insecurity among its at-ris … Continued
New Chatham Food Hub connects communities with access to local food during COVID-19 pandemic
August 17, 2020The Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and UNC Health worked with Chatham County and N.C. State Extension partners to create a one-stop food hub at Bray Park in Siler City, which inclu … Continued
No Kid Hungry NC, Carolina Hunger Initiative support meals for children during COVID-19 school closures
July 21, 2020Nationwide, families who rely on school meals for breakfast and lunch are worried about feeding their children. In North Carolina, an organization at UNC-Chapel Hill is reducing that stress. No Kid Hu … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
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 … Continued
CDC renews HPDP’s center grant to study chronic disease prevention
May 13, 2019The Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a five-year renewal grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevent … Continued
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 … Continued