Alice Ammerman, DrPH

Alice Ammerman, DrPH, is co-director of the Outreach and Education Core. She is a professor in the Department of Nutrition at the Gillings School of Global Public Health and director of the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, one of 26 Prevention Research Centers in a national network funded by the CDC. Dr. Ammerman’s research focuses on chronic disease prevention in marginalized populations and communities and on economic development in rural communities through sustainable food systems. She is the principal investigator of an affiliated research project funded by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities focused on healthy food access and health promotion in rural, blue-collar worksites: “Good Bowls: Empowering Communities to Achieve Good Food Access and Health Equity.”