STRIPED Advocacy Campaigns

STRIPED is engaged in advocacy campaigns to create healthier environments that promote body confidence in girls, boys, and people of all genders. Some of the campaigns below are informed directly by STRIPED research, and some address social justice and body confidence issues we fully support and are led by others. We create opportunities for public health students and adolescent medicine trainees to learn the craft of research-to-policy translation through hands-on experience in impactful community-based advocacy on issues they care about.

STRIPED News

Today marks a win for the Out of Kids’ Hands Campaign! Thanks to our youth advocates, S.5863/A.5610D took effect in NY state on April 22, 2024, restricting sales of weight-loss and muscle-building supplements to minors. A judge denied an injunction motion by the supplement industry. This much-needed change protects children’s health and well-being. Find Senator Mayer’s full press release here.

Check out STRIPED’s new roadmap, which provides model legislation, guides, and fact sheets to help advocates create safer online spaces for youth through algorithm risk audits and social media transparency.

New STRIPED research highlights the significant health and economic toll of body dissatisfaction, weight discrimination, and skin-shade discrimination in America. Learn more in our report, The Real Cost of Beauty Ideals.

STRIPED is now accepting applications for travel scholarships for the next Eating Disorders Coalition Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, May 8, 2024. To apply, visit our Travel Scholarship webpage. Applications are due Tuesday, April 2, 2024.

Hear key insights on eating disorder prevention from STRIPED Director Bryn Austin in an important new episode of the “Food, We Need to Talk” podcast. Don’t miss this revealing conversation on critical strategies for at-risk youth during National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.

NPR’s Morning Edition featured a collaboration with colleagues at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health emphasizing the need for universities to work with mental health influencers in order to create impactful social media content promoting evidence-based research.

New STRIPED research in the American Journal of Law and Medicine: Algorithms, Addiction, and Adolescent Mental Health: An Interdisciplinary Study to Inform State-level Policy Action to Protect Youth from the Dangers of Social Media.