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.
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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.
View 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 in Frontiers in Nutrition has found that adding an ultra-processed food (UPF) warning label to packaged foods changed Chilean parents’ healthfulness perceptions and their intent to purchase, particularly when products had no or few other warning labels. […]
Providing technical assistance and legal and scientific evidence to advance policies for healthier food environments. As federal, state, and local governments consider policies to address the harms of ultra-processed foods (UPFs), the Global Food Research Program at UNC-Chapel Hill (GFRP) […]
