Category: Healthy Food Access
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 Jessica 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 a … Read more
Soldavini receives two-year predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture
October 7, 2019Jessica Soldavini, MPH, RD, LDN Jessica Soldavini, a graduate research assistant at the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP), has received a prestigious predoctoral fellowship … Read more
CDC renews HPDP’s center grant to study chronic disease prevention
May 13, 2019The Old Well. Located on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Jon Gardiner/UNC-Chapel Hill) The Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) at the University o … 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
HPDP makes donation to support ongoing hurricane relief efforts
January 30, 2019From left, Tiki Windley of the FFORC team, along with Mary Johnson and Ernest Fisher from Integrity Community Development Center, assisting with supply distribution in Kinston, N.C. Although North Car … 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
Good Bowls: A recipe for health equity
May 29, 2018Short-term and long-term health can be dictated by a paycheck, a home address, or another social determinant, but Good Bowls is a new initiative seeking to change that. Alice Ammerman, director of UNC … Read more
Ammerman awarded the Office of the Provost Engaged Scholarship Award for engaged research
April 16, 2018Alice Ammerman, DrPH, director of the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and Mildred Kaufman distinguished professor of nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health … 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