34: From the Fiji Islands to Facebook: The Impact of Westernized Media on the Island of Fiji

Interested in hearing about body image and eating in a subsistence agriculture, before and after exposure to television? Join Signe for a conversation with Dr. Anne Becker about her groundbreaking study in 1995 in Fiji, when she said, “television arrived like it was being parachuted from nowhere,” her follow up study in 2007 (pre-social media), and her plans to return.

Anne Becker, MD, PhD, Dean for Clinical and Academic Affairs, Professor of Psychiatry, and Presley Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. A medical anthropologist and psychiatrist, Dr. Becker’s research includes the social and cultural mediation of presentation and risk for eating disorders and social barriers to care for mental disorders. Dr. Becker is founding and past Director of the Eating Disorders Clinical and Research Program at Mass General Hospital, past president of the Academy for Eating Disorders, former associate editor of the International Journal of Eating Disorders, and was a member of the DSM-5 Eating Disorders Work Group. She has been a recipient of NEDA’s Price Family Award for Research Excellence as well as the Academy for Eating Disorders’s Leadership Award in Research. 

To learn more about Dr. Becker visit: https://hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/anne-e-becker