Nutrition

Our curriculum grows with a new BSPH in Community and Global Public Health and a Healthcare Management Certificate, fostering innovation and student engagement.

Gillings uses a precision health approach through the Obesity Hub to investigate why different individuals have varying weight gain patterns when consuming the same diets.

Public health experts and researchers work over the long run — and out of the spotlight — to generate vital solutions that lead to better health outcomes.

A Gillings professor's effort to provide healthy foods to families in need also helps struggling restaurants during the pandemic.

UNC's Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention addresses food insecurity in North Carolina with partners that support child nutrition and community-based food systems.

The funding will support research and implementation of evidence-based strategies that can recognize and treat urgent maternal health warning signs among participants in the WIC supplemental food program.

Carolina Hunger Initiative provides children, families, teachers and nutrition professionals with nutrition education tools to promote healthy food choices.

Leeann Ji's MPH practicum with the UN FAO in Bangkok focused on water scarcity, sanitation and agriculture to combat food insecurity in Asia.

Dr. Lindsey Smith Taillie works with researchers and lawmakers in Chile to develop warning labels for junk food and sugary drinks.

BCBSNC partners with No Kid Hungry N.C. to address food insecurity among public school students by providing financial support for child nutrition programs.

UNC's Nutrition Research Institute studies how individual differences in requirements and responses to diet affect our individual nutritional needs.

By providing fruits and vegetables, produce prescriptions can improve health. With funding from The Duke Endowment, Shu Wen Ng explores their cost-savings.