Amanda Raffoul

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Amanda Raffoul is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) postdoctoral fellow with STRIPED, the Strategic Training Initative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders, based at Boston Children's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Amanda received her MSc and PhD from the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo. Amanda's PhD dissertation focused on the unintended consequences of weight and nutrition policies (such as calorie labelling) on disordered eating. 

She became interested in eating disorder prevention while completing her BA in Psychology and has since been actively engaged in national and community-based prevention programming related to positive body image, gender equity, and weight-related advocacy.

During her postdoctoral fellowship, Amanda is leading policy analyses using microsimulation modeling and a Delphi study of leaders in the fields of eating disorders, weight studies, nutrition, and mental health to identify gaps in eating disorders prevention across Canada.

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