Groundbreaking Report: Economic Costs of Eating Disorders

STRIPED, in collaboration with the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED) and Deloitte Access Economics, has conducted the most comprehensive examination to date of the social and economic burden of eating disorders in the United States. The product of a yearlong collaboration, the report provides a critical new body of evidence on the devastating impact of eating disorders on individuals, families, and society. In addition to estimating the direct cost of treatment for eating disorders, the report documents a range of additional economic costs, including informal caregiving, productivity, and broader costs to society and estimates substantial losses in wellbeing.

Read the press release on this groundbreaking report.

June 24, 2020, Press Conference:
On Wednesday, June 24, at 5p ET, STRIPED, along with the Academy for Eating Disorders (AED), hosted a press conference to release the results of the most comprehensive study of the social and economic costs of eating disorders in the United States to date. Johanna Kandel, founder and executive director of the Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness moderated the press conference. STRIPED Director S. Bryn Austin, Natasha Doherty, and Jared Streatfeild of Deloitte Access Economics spoke on behalf of the report.

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