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Anne Becker
Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard University
Areas of expertise
- Medical Anthropology
- Global Mental Health
- Eating Disorders
- Fiji
Major works
Body, Self, and Society (1995)
About me
Dr. Becker is the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. Becker combines clinical, ethnographic, and epidemiologic methods in her work. She has researched eating pathology, suicide, and other youth health risk behaviors in Fiji and is currently conducting a mental health research capacity building project and novel school-based youth mental health pilot intervention in central Haiti. Dr. Becker also served on the APA’s DSM-5 Eating Disorders Work Group.