Ariel L. Beccia, PhD

Facilitator, Salon Guest Host

Ariel L. Beccia, PhD (she/her) is a Research Scientist in the Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. A social epidemiologist by training, her research focuses on understanding the social and structural determinants of eating disorder inequities, with a particular focus on inequities affecting LGBTQ+ youth. She also regularly collaborates on projects examining the drivers of mental health inequities more broadly and has a strong interest in integrating causal inference, econometric, and other advanced quantitative methods into this line of work.

As a social epidemiologist, Dr. Beccia’s research focuses on understanding the social and structural determinants of population-level eating disorder inequities, with a particular focus on inequities affecting LGBTQ+ youth. She also regularly collaborates on projects examining the drivers of mental health inequities more broadly and has a strong interest in integrating causal inference, econometric, and other advanced quantitative methods into this line of work. Alongside her research, Dr. Beccia leads STRIPED’s Eating Disorder Public Health Surveillance Working Group to help improve the monitoring of eating disorders and disordered eating among U.S. youth, especially via the CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS).

In 2025, Dr. Beccia has hosted trainings on structural quantitative intersectionality research at ISI. In 2026, she is delivering training, co-hosting an Intersectionality Research Salon, and co-hosting an Intersectionality Collective Office Hour.

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=N_ZiCWQAAAAJ&hl=en

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