Through collaborative research and evaluation with our partners worldwide, we work to create a more healthful food system and food environment.
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-packaging 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 resourcesGFRP is an interdisciplinary team of UNC faculty; research staff including nutritionists, programmers, and economists; post-doctoral fellows; and graduate and undergraduate students.
Meet our team members
The latest evaluation of Chile’s Law of Food Labeling and Advertising finds that under Phase 1 of the law’s implementation, Chileans purchased significantly fewer calories, sugar, saturated fat, and sodium than would have been expected had the law and its regulations not gone into effect. […]
New research from GFRP graduate Juan Carlos Salgado Hernández, PhD and professor Shu Wen Ng, PhD, examines how different sugary drink tax designs compare to Mexico’s tax in terms of how effectively they might reduce the amount of sugar Mexicans buy from beverages and the […]