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STRIPED News

In this Denver Post article, STRIPED Director Bryn Austin discusses the banning of weight-loss pills to youth.

STRIPED’s Dr. Amanda Raffoul was recently quoted in two articles about the harms of social media on body image.

STRIPED won the Technology Innovation Award at the 2023 Society for Public Health Education’s Annual Conference for its innovate e-course, Tackling Colourism in India through an Online Course for Public Health Professionals! STRIPED Collaborating Mentor, Alvin Tran, also received the 2023 Karen Denard Goldman Health Education Mentor Award.

Check out our latest research: Financial precarity, food insecurity, and psychological distress prospectively linked with use of potentially dangerous dietary supplements during the pandemic in the US.

The economic and social costs of body dissatisfaction and appearance-based discrimination in the United States are staggering. Read our newest report: The Real Cost of Beauty Ideals and read some of our press coverage.

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