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Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED)

Our initiative is a public health incubator, designed to cultivate novel insights and strategies for prevention. We introduce trainees to a rich array of disciplinary perspectives, methodologies, and theories and provide them with opportunities to join crosscutting collaborative teams.

STRIPED Youth Corps

The mission of the STRIPED Youth Corps is to train the next generation of youth leaders to harness the power of their advocacy and research to address eating disorders and related problems with food, weight, and appearance. We strive to create a society where girls, boys, and people of all genders can grow up at home in their own bodies.

STRIPED has been collaborating with youth on STRIPED initiatives, including our policy translation efforts to ban the sale of over-the-counter diet pills and muscle-building supplements to minors. Check out the STRIPED Youth Corps team below.

Are you a young person interested in learning more about our STRIPED Youth Corps? Contact Abbie Bulens at abigail.bulens@childrens.harvard.edu to get started!

Erina Haque

High School Student, Virginia

Chuying Huo

Student, North Carolina

Arjun Krishnagopal

High School Student, Pennsylvania

Anna Mockel

High School Student, Maryland

Aryan Reddy

College Student, Texas

Nuha Salam

High School Student, Massachusetts

Malini Sampath

College Student, New Hampshire

Shreyaa Sanjay

High School Student, New Jersey

Caleb Song

High School Student, Illinois

Sahana Srikanth

High School Student, Ohio

Lucy Takakur

High School Student, China

Washington University in St. Louis

Ketan Tamirisa

College Student, Missouri

Arshia Verma

College Student, Texas

Tisya Verma

High School Student, Texas

STRIPED Youth Corps Partner Organizations 

In addition to these incredible individuals, STRIPED has also been collaborating with a number of youth-led organizations to ban the sale of over-the-counter diet pills and muscle-building supplements to minors:

  • Civiso
  • Finxerunt
  • For You
  • International Socioeconomics Laboratory
  • NCARTH
  • Push for Public Health
  • Policy Initiatives Institute

STRIPED Youth Survey and Sign-On Letter Information

Join us by signing our Youth Survey and Sign-on Letter!

Are you 24 years old and younger? Are you interested in protecting children across the state by preventing the sale of over-the-counter diet pills and muscle-building supplements to youth under 18? If you said yes to both of those questions, read on! The youth-led health policy advocacy group ISL/Finxerunt and Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED) are collecting sign-ons from youth across the country who support a ban on sales of over-the-counter diet pills and muscle-building supplements to minors.

Graduated Youth Corps Members

See here for a full list of our former members!