Trainees

Congratulations to graduating STRIPED Trainee, Rachel Plummer, MPH! Read about Rachel and her work with STRIPED in Current Spotlight!

Current Trainees

Read more about our trainees at Spotlight on Our Team!

Ariel Beccia, MS
PhD candidate, Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Charmaine Chan, BA
Master’s student, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Cindy Chwa, BA
Master’s student, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Ryan Dunk
B.A. Candidate in Psychology, Suffolk University

Destiny Jackson
B.A. Candidate in Sociology and Global Health, Emory University

Mary Lee, BS
Master’s Student, Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Benedictine University

Miriam Nelson
A.B. Candidate in Applied Math, Economics, and Government, Harvard College

Funmbi Okoya, BPharm
Master’s Student, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Even Paglisotti, MPH

Doctoral student, Population Health Sciences, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Meera Ruparelia, BS
Master’s student, Health Policy & Law, Mental Health & Substance Use, Boston University School of Public Health

Meg Salvia, MS, RDN
Doctoral student, Population Health Sciences, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Marlena Skrabak
Joint A.B. Candidate in History & Science (Medicine and Society) and French, Harvard College

Samantha Turner, BS, RN
PhD Student, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Graduate School of Nursing

Check out our past STRIPED Trainees here.

STRIPED News

The STRIPED Youth Corps Team invites you to register for the California Youth-Led Press Conference: Let’s Get Dangerous Diet Pills Out of Kids’ Hands! Sign up to learn more about the evidence and hear advocate stories supporting California Assembly Member Cristina Garcia’s bill AB-1341.

Help curb the explosion of eating disorders among teens and parents protect their kids from predatory diet pills, weight loss and muscle-building supplements by emailing your Senator to support S16D.

California has the chance to be first in the nation to protect children from dangerous & deceptive over-the-counter diet pills and weight loss supplements. Email your California Assembly representative now!

Breaking news! On January 11, 2022, NY Assembly Bill A431C, passed the New York State Assembly! We are very excited about this progress and urge all New York constituents to reach out to their Senate legislators asking them to cosponsor and vote in favor of NY Senate Bill S16D.

Parents and pediatricians know it too well: The pandemic has caused a maelstrom of mental distress for millions of U.S. teens. We need to act now. Read Dr. Jason Nagata and Dr. Bryn Austin’s incisive piece in San Francisco Chronicle.

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STRIPED Trainee Ariel Beccia and STRIPED Director Dr. Bryn Austin discuss the gap in public health systems on eating disorder symptoms in latest STAT news article.

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

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!