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.
We are currently accepting letters of intent for the new Research for Innovative Food Policy Fund.
Learn more and apply nowTaxes, 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.
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.
Meet our team members
A passion for prevention and a desire to create healthier food systems have guided Tessa Lasswell’s journey from registered dietitian to USDA nutritionist and now doctoral student. Beginning this fall, Tessa joins the Department of Health Behavior at UNC-Chapel Hill’s […]
A new study led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Global Food Research Program (GFRP) found that Peru’s mandatory front-of-package warning label policy was associated with meaningful improvements in the nutritional quality of the country’s packaged […]
