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.
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A new study has found promising evidence that Mexico’s front-of-package labeling policy is changing diets. Following implementation in 2020 of a mandatory policy requiring warning labels on the front of food and beverage packages if they are high in energy […]
A new Series published in The Lancet, coauthored by Barry Popkin, W.R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of nutrition at the UNC Gillings Global School of Public Health and founder of the Global Food Research Program at UNC-Chapel Hill, warns that the rapid rise in ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption is undermining […]
