Through collaborative research and evaluation with our diverse partners worldwide, we work to reduce diet-related disparities and create a more healthful food system and food environment.
Nutrient warning labels come out ahead in a new randomized controlled trial, compared to multiple traffic lights and Guideline Daily Amounts labels
All over the world, healthy food policies are improving public health and reducing the burden of disease.
See where we workTaxes, marketing restrictions, front-of-package labels, and school nutrition policies are making a measurable impact.
Explore GFRP policy researchWe maintain a set of maps showing nutrition policies enacted worldwide, as well as fact sheets summarizing evidence for various nutrition policies.
Check out our resourcesThe GFRP team is comprised of faculty, post-doctoral fellows, research staff, and graduate and undergraduate students from multiple disciplines including nutrition and dietetics, health behaviors, economics, statistical programming, and more.
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A new study published today in the November issue of Health Affairs underscores the positive impact of the Healthy Helping produce prescription program that provided North Carolinians facing food insecurity with $40 a month to spend on fruits and vegetables […]
On Thursday, Oct. 6, Barry Popkin, PhD, W. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of nutrition at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, delivered a keynote address at the 38th Annual Meeting of the German Obesity Society. In his […]