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Anne E. Becker is the Maude Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is an anthropologist and psychiatrist whose research focuses on the social and cultural mediation of body image, the risk of eating disorders, mental health promotion in schools, and social barriers to mental health care. Becker led pivotal investigations into the impact of rapid social transitions on eating pathology and health risk behaviors among the indigenous iTaukei population in Fiji. She has served as co-principal investigator for school-based mental health interventions in Haiti and Lebanon. With over 150 publications to her name, she authored the book 'Body, Self, Society: A View from Fiji' and co-edited a forthcoming volume on global mental health training. Becker has held various editorial roles, including co-editor-in-chief of 'Culture, Medicine, Psychiatry' and associate editor for the 'International Journal of Eating Disorders.' She has received numerous accolades including the Price Family Award for Research Excellence from the National Eating Disorders Association and the Barbara J. McNeil Faculty Award for Exceptional Institutional Service from Harvard Medical School.
Harvard Medical School • Boston, MA
Teaching and conducting research in global health and social medicine.
Administered by the Division of Medical Sciences (DMS). GRE is not required and will not be considered for BBS, Immunology, and Neuroscience.