Category: Research Projects

By Grayson Mendenhall gkm4unc@email.unc.edu For more than three decades, a groundbreaking research study born at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has followed the lives of thousands of Americans, creating one of the world’s richest sources of information … Read more

Caitlin Lowery, a doctoral student in the Department of Nutrition at UNC-Chapel Hill and a researcher at the Global Food Research Program, won first prize in the Graduate Research and Policy Expo (GRaPE), organized by UNC’s policy group (SPAG).Lowery’s poster … Read more

The findings are promising: The warnings reduced parental purchases of sugary drinks for their kids by 17 percentage points.

A new project will be exploring the benefits of food prescription programs, which provide a monthly electronic benefit for participants to buy fresh fruits and vegetables. In early studies, this type of intervention has been shown to improve health outcomes. … Read more

Add Health is pleased to announce that the Wave V Public-Use data has been released is now available to download. Wave V Public-Use Data is a smaller sample of the Wave V Mixed-Mode Survey Data. This sample, like the other … Read more

Dear Add Health Investigators, We are excited to announce that the Add Health Navigator is now live! Add Health Navigator is Add Health’s Colectica portal that provides the ability to search codebooks, view wave to wave variable comparison and create … Read more

A UNC-Chapel Hill study of beverage consumption in a South African township shows that a country-wide tax on sugary beverages has worked to influence more healthy personal choices, with individuals reporting a reduction in the amount of sugar they drink. … Read more

May 6, 2021 By Courtney Mitchell Researchers have developed a new online store that can be used for testing the impact of different policies and interventions on consumers’ purchasing behavior. Lola’s Grocery was designed to have the look and feel … Read more