Keynote speakers

Keynote Speakers

Professor Anne Becker, Harvard University

Anne E. Becker, MD, PhD, SM is Dean for Clinical and Academic Affairs, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

A medical anthropologist and psychiatrist, Dr. Becker’s areas of scholarly focus include the social and cultural mediation of eating pathology, social barriers to care for mental disorders, and the advancement of training and innovation in global mental health. She has led investigations of the impact of rapid social transition on eating pathology in Fiji’s indigenous iTaukei population, is author of Body, Self, and Society: The View from Fiji (University of Pennsylvania Press) and co-editor of Global Mental Health Training and Practice: An Introductory Framework (Routledge).

Dr. Becker received her AB, MD, PhD (in anthropology), and SM (in epidemiology) degrees from Harvard and completed her internship, residency, and fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she also continues on the professional staff. Dr. Becker is founding and past Director of the Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, former vice chair of the Harvard Medical School Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, and past president of the Academy for Eating Disorders. She served as a member of the American Psychiatry Association’s DSM-5 Eating Disorders Work Group; she is former associate editor for global initiatives of the International Journal of Eating Disorders and past co editor-in-chief of Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry. She is also a past recipient of the Price Family Award for Research Excellence from the National Eating Disorders Association and the Leadership Award in Research from the Academy for Eating Disorders.

Professor Tracy Tylka, Ohio State University

Dr. Tracy Tylka, Ph.D., is a Professor within the Department of Psychology at the Ohio State University and Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders who focuses her research attention on identifying, assessing, and understanding both adaptive and maladaptive body image and eating behaviors. She has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Body Image: An International Journal of Research since 2018 and was an Associate Editor for this journal from 2009-2017. She has published extensively in the field, writing and/or co-editing eight books, including the Handbook of Positive Body Image and Embodiment, Handbook of Body Image, Handbook of Body Image-Related Measures,and Positive Body Image Workbook: A Clinical and Self-Improvement Guide. Additionally, she has published dozens of chapters and over a hundred theoretical and empirical articles. Her most valued accomplishments include her collaborations with colleagues to develop scales such as the Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2), Intuitive Eating Scale-3 (IES-3), Body Acceptance by Others Scale-2 (BAOS-2), Male Body Attitudes Scale (MBAS), and Interpersonal Sexual Objectification Scale (ISOS).