Category: Healthy Food Access
UNC faculty and staff have new access to fresh veggies at Carolina Campus Community Garden
June 16, 2010HPDP researchers helped turn an idea for an employee food bank into an opportunity for members of the UNC community learn about gardening while growing vegetables on campus. The Carolina Campus Commun … Read more
Church garden hopes to cultivate good health
May 10, 2010A new partnership between the Coley Springs Missionary Baptist Church, pastored by Reverend Carson Jones, and the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) seeks to cultivate bette … Read more
UNC HPDP selects two new WK Kellogg Health Scholars
April 27, 2010The UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) will welcome two new postdoctoral students to be WK Kellogg Health Scholars beginning in August. Barbara Baquero and Briana Woods will … Read more
Ammerman joins new state council on local food
January 29, 2010Alice Ammerman, director of the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and professor of nutrition in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, has joined a new state council focused … Read more
Sustainable agriculture grows at HPDP this spring
February 9, 2009In keeping with its mission to reduce heath disparities, the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) is investigating the links between local sustainable food systems and health. … Read more