Anthropologist and psychiatrist / Anne E. Becker, MD, PhD, ScM Dean for Clinical and Academic Affairs, HMS 00:00:00
Dr. Becker is an anthropologist and psychiatrist whose research focus includes the social and cultural mediation of presentation and risk of 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.
