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UNC Center for Health Promotion & Disease Prevention
Together We
Grow
What We Do
The Food, Fitness, and Opportunity Research Collaborative, FFORC (pronounced ‘fork’), is a research team housed at the Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and led by Dr. Molly De Marco. At FFORC, we conduct research and evaluation to build equitable access to healthy foods and opportunities to be physically active. We work to employ participatory community engagement strategies in all our work.
FFORC and its partner research team, Child Hunger Initiative (CHI), are situated within the UNC Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (HPDP) and are dedicated to reducing health disparities through education, community-based participatory research methods. These initiatives are part of a network of CDC Prevention Research Centers and funded by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) SNAP-Ed Program through a partnership with the NC Division of Child and Family Well-being.
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