Anne Becker

Anne E. Becker, MD, PhD, SM is the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School she also serves as a member of the Leadership Council of the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program. An anthropologist and psychiatrist, Dr. Becker has been lead investigator on a series of studies demonstrating the relationship between media exposure and eating pathology in the small-scale indigenous population of Fiji. In addition, Dr. Becker's NIMH-funded research has investigated the impact of rapid economic and social transition on eating pathology, suicide, and other youth health risk behaviors in Fiji. She and her co-PI, Pere Eddy Eustache, have just completed a school-based youth mental health pilot intervention in central Haiti with NIMH funding. Dr. Becker is founding and past Director of the Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, an associate editor of the International Journal of Eating Disorders, past president of the Academy for Eating Disorders, and served as a member of the American Psychiatry Association’s DSM-5 Eating Disorders Work Group as well as vice chairperson of their Council on International Psychiatry. In addition to her portfolio at IJED focused on strategic global initiatives, Dr. Becker is past co-editor in chief of the journal, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry and serves on the editorial boards of Anthropology & Medicine and the Harvard Review of Psychiatry. She received the 2013 Price Family Award for Research Excellence from the National Eating Disorders Association and in 2014 received the Mentorship Award in recognition of “Exceptional Mentorship of Women Faculty” at Massachusetts General Hospital.

PUBLICATIONS

• Narratives of Agency and Capability from Two Adolescent Girls in Post-conflict Liberia.

  • Anne Edith Becker, PhD, MD
  • Culture, medicine and psychiatry, December 1, 2018

• Levey EJ, Laird LD, Becker AE, Harris BL, Lekpeh GG, Oppenheim CE, Henderson DC, Borba CPC

  • Prevalence of stressful life events and their association with post-traumatic stress disorder among youth attending secondary school in Haiti.
  • Giuseppe James Raviola, MD, Anne Edith Becker, PhD, MD, Mary C. Smith-Fawzi, ScD
  • Psychiatry research, August 18, 2018

• Grelotti DJ, Gerbasi ME, Eustache E, Fils-Aimé JR, Thérosmé T, Severe J, Raviola GJ, Darghouth S, Legha R, Pierre EL, Affricot E, Alcindor Y, Boyd K, Becker AE, Smith Fawzi MC

• Commentary.

• Anne Edith Becker, PhD, MD

• Transcultural psychiatry, August 1, 2018

• Becker AE

  • Are eating disorders "all about control?" The elusive psychopathology of nonfat phobic presentations.
  • Anne Edith Becker, PhD, MD
  • The International journal of eating disorders, September 30, 2017

• Murray HB, Coniglio K, Hartmann AS, Becker AE, Eddy KT, Thomas JJ

  • Building Workforce Capacity Abroad While Strengthening Global Health Programs at Home: Participation of Seven Harvard-Affiliated Institutions in a Health Professional Training Initiative in Rwanda.
  • Robert Riviello, MD, MPH, Gene Bukhman, MD, PhD, Giuseppe James Raviola, MD, Paul Edward Farmer, MD, PhD, Anne Edith Becker, PhD, MD, Agnes Binagwaho, PhD, MD, Joseph Rhatigan, MD
  • Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, May 1, 2017

• Cancedda C, Riviello R, Wilson K, Scott KW, Tuteja M, Barrow JR, Hedt-Gauthier B, Bukhman G, Scott J, Milner D, Raviola G, Weissman B, Smith S, Nuthulaganti T, McClain CD, Bierer BE, Farmer PE, Becker AE, Binagwaho A, Rhatigan J, Golan DE

• High burden of mental illness and low utilization of care among school-going youth in Central Haiti: A window into the youth mental health treatment gap in a low-income country.

  • Mary C. Smith-Fawzi, ScD, Jennifer Severe, MD, Giuseppe James Raviola, MD, Anne Edith Becker, PhD, MD
  • The International journal of social psychiatry, April 3, 2017

• Eustache E, Gerbasi ME, Smith Fawzi MC, Fils-Aimé JR, Severe J, Raviola GJ, Legha R, Darghouth S, Grelotti DJ, Thérosmé T, Pierre EL, Affricot E, Alcindor Y, Becker AE

• Formative research on a teacher accompaniment model to promote youth mental health in Haiti: Relevance to mental health task-sharing in low-resource school settings.

  • Jennifer Severe, MD, Mary C. Smith-Fawzi, ScD, Giuseppe James Raviola, MD, Anne Edith Becker, PhD, MD
  • The International journal of social psychiatry, April 3, 2017

• Eustache E, Gerbasi ME, Severe J, Fils-Aimé JR, Smith Fawzi MC, Raviola GJ, Darghouth S, Boyd K, Thérosmé T, Legha R, Pierre EL, Affricot E, Alcindor Y, Grelotti DJ, Becker AE

• Psychological risk and protective factors for disability in chronic low back pain - a longitudinal analysis in primary care.

  • Anne Edith Becker, PhD, MD
  • BMC musculoskeletal disorders, March 20, 2017

• Jegan NR, Brugger M, Viniol A, Strauch K, Barth J, Baum E, Leonhardt C, Becker A

• The prevention of musculoskeletal complaints: a randomized controlled trial on additional effects of a work-related psychosocial coaching intervention compared to physiotherapy alone.

  • Anne Edith Becker, PhD, MD
  • International archives of occupational and environmental health, March 2, 2017

• Becker A, Angerer P, Müller A

  • Graded Exposure for Chronic Low Back Pain in Older Adults: A Pilot Study.
  • Anne Edith Becker, PhD, MD
  • Journal of geriatric physical therapy (2001), January 1, 2017

• Leonhardt C, Kuss K, Becker A, Basler HD, de Jong J, Flatau B, Laekeman M, Mattenklodt P, Schuler M, Vlaeyen J, Quint S