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Monique Santoso, BA
STRIPED Program Coordinator
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital
monique.santoso@childrens.harvard.edu

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New York’s 51 Percent Radio at WAMC featured Youth Corps member Joanne Chung and Director Bryn Austin talking about the connection between banning diet pills and muscle-building supplements and supporting eating disorder recovery. Listen in here.

Interested in learning more about the economic costs of eating disorders? Tune in to this week’s episode of Bad With Money With Gaby Dunn to hear STRIPED Director Dr. Bryn Austin discuss how much revenue “the obesity epidemic” has generated off of disordered eating and fatphobia and actress Stephanie Beatriz talk about her own disordered eating and its financial costs here.

Tune in to the latest episode of Better Off, a podcast of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, hosted by Anna Fisher-Pinkert, to hear STRIPED Director Dr. Bryn Austin talk about the enormous cost of eating disorders to the US economy and share insights on what we could achieve if we applied the power of public health to solve our society’s problems with fat-shaming, the dieting industry, and the stickiness of stereotypes.

Read our STRIPED Fall 2021 Newsletter to find out more about what the STRIPED team has been working on and projects in the pipeline!

Interested to learn about how schools can create supportive learning environments that prevent weight stigma, body dissatisfaction, and eating disorders? STRIPED Director Dr. Bryn Austin and Denise Hamburger, JD, executive director of BE REAL USA, discuss this issue in our latest webinar delivered to CDC Healthy School Grantees.

Check out our brief, free training with CME for health professionals “Screening, Symptom Recognition & Referral to Treatment for Eating Disorders in Pediatric Primary Care Settings.” For more information on how to register for this e-course, click HERE.

Curious to know more about tried-and-true strategies that you can use to advocate for the prevention of eating disorders and promote body confidence? Take a look at our STRIPED Advocacy Playbook!

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