Rate My Professor Rachel Goode

Goode’s research in Health Science centers on equitable, community-engaged interventions for obesity and eating disorders, with a focus on binge eating and health disparities among Black women. Her NIH-funded K23 Career Development Award supports developing the culturally tailored LISTEN digital tool to enhance appetite awareness and address binge eating. She recently received the American Diabetes Association’s 2025 Pathway to Stop Diabetes grant to pilot a program preventing type 2 diabetes in at-risk Black emergent adult women. With over $1.7 million in funding since 2017 from NIH, National Eating Disorders Association, and others, her work provides pioneering evidence for behavioral treatments in this population. Notable awards include the 2023 Deborah K. Padgett Early Career Achievement Award from the Society for Social Work and Research, Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and Oprah Civic Leadership Award. Select publications: “Binge eating and binge-eating disorder in Black women: A systematic review” (International Journal of Eating Disorders, 2020); “A review of binge-eating disorder in black women: treatment recommendations...” (Current Psychiatry Reports, 2022); “The Impact of COVID-19 on Black Women who Binge Eat” (Eating and Weight Disorders, 2022).