Rate My Professor Lauren Forrest

Forrest's key publications include "Intersectional prevalence of suicide ideation, plan, and attempt based on gender, sexual orientation, race and ethnicity, and rurality" (JAMA Psychiatry, 2023), "Machine learning versus traditional regression models predicting treatment outcomes for binge-eating disorder from a randomized controlled trial" (Psychological Medicine, 2023), "Empirically determined severity levels for binge-eating disorder outperform existing severity classification schemes" (Psychological Medicine, 2022), and "Change in eating-disorder psychopathology network structure in patients with binge-eating disorder: Findings from treatment trial with 12-month follow-up" (Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2022). She has been recognized as a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science in 2025 and received the Outstanding Contributions to Research award from Penn State College of Medicine in 2023, along with other honors such as the Early Career Top-Scoring Paper at the International Conference on Eating Disorders in 2022. Her research has been funded by the National Institute for Minority Health and Health Disparities, the American Psychological Association, the Academy for Eating Disorders, and the Military Suicide Research Consortium. Forrest serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Eating Disorders since 2022 and the associate editorial board of Behaviour Research and Therapy since 2023, and has contributed to scientific planning committees for the International Conference on Eating Disorders.