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Anne Edith Becker, M.D., Ph.D.

Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Dean for Clinical and Academic Affairs, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Affiliate of the Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts & Sciences

Anne E. Becker, MD, PhD, SM is the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), where she serves on the MD-PhD Program Leadership Council; she is also founding and past Director of the Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).  An anthropologist and psychiatrist, Professor Becker’s areas of research focus include the social and cultural mediation of presentation and risk for eating disorders, social barriers to care for mental disorders, and school-based mental health promotion.  She has led investigations of the impact of rapid social transition on eating pathology and other youth health risk behaviors in the small-scale indigenous iTaukei population of Fiji and has served as co-PI on school-based mental health interventions in Haiti and Lebanon. In addition to the over 150 publications she has authored or co-authored in the scientific literature, Dr. Becker is author of Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji (U. Penn Press) and co-editor of a forthcoming book on global mental health training (Routledge). She serves on the editorial boards of Anthropology & Medicine and the Harvard Review of Psychiatry and is former co editor-in-chief of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry.  In addition, Professor Becker is former associate editor of the International Journal of Eating Disorders, past president of the Academy for Eating Disorders, and served as a member of the American Psychiatry Association’s DSM-5 Eating Disorders Work Group. Dr. Becker served as vice chair of the HMS Department of Global Health and Social Medicine from 2009-2016 and is also past director of the HMS MD-PhD Social Sciences program. Her teaching was recognized by the MGH Department of Psychiatry with the “Exceptional Mentorship of Women Faculty” award in 2014. She has also received the inaugural Barbara J. McNeil Faculty Award for Exceptional Institutional Service to HMS in 2014, the 2013 Price Family Award for Research Excellence from the National Eating Disorders Association, and the 2018 Leadership Award in Research from the Academy for Eating Disorders.

Anne E. Becker, MD, PhD, SM is the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  An anthropologist and psychiatrist, Professor Becker’s areas of research focus include the social and cultural mediation of presentation and risk for eating disorders, social barriers to care for mental disorders, and school-based mental health promotion.  She has led investigations of the impact of rapid social transition on eating pathology and other youth health risk behaviors in the small-scale indigenous iTaukei population of Fiji and has served as co-PI on school-based mental health interventions in Haiti and Lebanon. Her research on the association of media exposure with eating pathology in Fiji was recognized with the 2013 Price Family Award for Research Excellence from the National Eating Disorders Association and the 2018 Leadership Award in Research from the Academy for Eating Disorders.

Culturally Local Perspectives Are Imperative to Scientific Excellence and Health Equity in Eating Disorders Research: Commentary on Monocello et al. (2024).
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Int J Eat Disord
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A qualitative analysis of adolescent motherhood within the broader family context in Peru.
Authors: Authors: Levey EJ, Rodriguez AEM, Chang AR, Rondon MB, Sanchez MLJ, Harrison AM, Gelaye B, Becker AE.
Fam Relat
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Leaders' Perspectives on Resources for Academic Success: Defining Clinical Effort, Academic Time, and Faculty Support.
Authors: Authors: Misra M, Huang GC, Becker AE, Bates CK.
Perm J
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Patients' perspectives on a patient-oriented electronic decision support tool to reduce overuse of proton pump inhibitors (arriba-PPI): a qualitative study in primary care.
Authors: Authors: Schmidt A, Bücker B, Maas M, Löscher S, Becker A, Viniol A, Heisig J, Wilm S, Barzel A.
BMC Prim Care
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The impact of climate change on eating disorders: An urgent call for research.
Authors: Authors: Rodgers RF, Paxton SJ, Nagata JM, Becker AE.
Int J Eat Disord
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Orphans in post-conflict Liberia: Seeking care in fractured communities.
Authors: Authors: Levey EJ, Harris BL, Laird LD, Kekulah I, Borba CPC, Henderson DC, Becker AE.
Transcult Psychiatry
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Culture and Social Structure in Comprehensive Case Formulation.
Authors: Authors: Weiss MG, Aggarwal NK, Gómez-Carrillo A, Kohrt B, Kirmayer LJ, Bhui KS, Like R, Kopelowicz A, Lu F, Farías PJ, Becker AE, Hinton L, Lewis-Fernández R.
J Nerv Ment Dis
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Burden of disease among the world's poorest billion people: An expert-informed secondary analysis of Global Burden of Disease estimates.
Authors: Authors: Coates MM, Ezzati M, Robles Aguilar G, Kwan GF, Vigo D, Mocumbi AO, Becker AE, Makani J, Hyder AA, Jain Y, Stefan DC, Gupta N, Marx A, Bukhman G.
PLoS One
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The Lancet NCDI Poverty Commission: bridging a gap in universal health coverage for the poorest billion.
Authors: Authors: Bukhman G, Mocumbi AO, Atun R, Becker AE, Bhutta Z, Binagwaho A, Clinton C, Coates MM, Dain K, Ezzati M, Gottlieb G, Gupta I, Gupta N, Hyder AA, Jain Y, Kruk ME, Makani J, Marx A, Miranda JJ, Norheim OF, Nugent R, Roy N, Stefan C, Wallis L, Mayosi B.
Lancet
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Building Emotional Resilience in Youth in Lebanon: a School-Based Randomized Controlled Trial of the FRIENDS Intervention.
Authors: Authors: Maalouf FT, Alrojolah L, Ghandour L, Afifi R, Dirani LA, Barrett P, Nakkash R, Shamseddeen W, Tabaja F, Yuen CM, Becker AE.
Prev Sci
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