Rachel Goode, PhD, MPH, LCSW
Associate Professor of Social Work and Psychiatry
Rachel W. Goode is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for Eating Disorder Excellence, Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Goode received her PhD, MPH, and MSW from the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include developing, implementing, and evaluating equitable and community-engaged interventions to treat obesity and eating disorders. Her research has been funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH), National Eating Disorders Association, Magee Womens Research Institute, and the University Research Council at UNC-Chapel Hill. Currently, Dr. Goode is the principal investigator of an NIH Career Development Award (K23) to develop a culturally-relevant digital health tool to treat binge eating and obesity. Additionally, Dr. Goode is a licensed clinical social worker, and has practice experience with the treatment of eating disorders and obesity among clients in university counseling centers, and community-based mental health agencies. She has been fortunate to be the recipient of various awards, including the Oprah Civic Leadership Award, National Health, Lung, Blood Institute (NIH) Research Service Award, and the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine.
Beyond Weight Loss: What Patients Really Need
Beyond Weight Loss: What Patients Really NeedRachel W. Goode, PhD, MPH, LCSW is an Associate Professor at the School of Social Work and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Center for...
Helping Emotional Eaters Maintain Their Weight: A Promising New Approach
For many adults, eating in response to emotions rather than hunger – known as emotional eating – can lead to unwanted weight gain and increase the risk of serious health conditions like heart...
Healthy Eating Starts at the Grocery Store – Let’s Make It Easier
Beyond Affordability: Structural Barriers to Healthy Eating
Grocery shopping is a routine task for many, but for those relying on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), it involves additional considerations—when benefits are available, where...
Publications 2025
Publications 2024
Publications 2023
Gendered Racial Microagressions and Emotional Eating for Black Young Adult Women: The Mediating Roles of Superwomen Schema and Self-Compassion. (Article accepted for publication)
Coping Behaviors in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Essential Workers of Color: Latent Classes and Covariates. (Article accepted for publication)
The Impact of COVID-19 on Life Stressors among Essential Workers of Color: A Latent Class Analysis.
Publications 2022
Course and Predictors of Eating Disorder Symptoms in the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Eating Disorder in Black Women: Treatment Recommendations and Healthcare Implications.
Longer-term Impact of COVID-19 on Eating Disorders in the United States, Netherlands, and Sweden.
The Impact of COVID-19 on Black Women who Binge Eat: A Qualitative Study.
Publications 2021
Nightly variation in sleep influences self-efficacy for adhering to a healthy lifestyle.
Binge eating and binge-eating disorder in Black women: A systematic review.
The feasibility of a binge eating intervention in Black women with obesity.
African-Americans in standard behavioral treatment for obesity, 2001-2015: What have we learned?