Shemeka Thorpe, Ph.D is Assistant Professor in Health Promotion at University of Kentucky. She is an award winning sex educator, researcher, and trained public health practitioner. She focuses her research on Black women’s sexual wellbeing using sex positive frameworks.

She is also the Co-Founder of The Minority Sex Report where their mission is to provide representation of Black and Native American people within sexuality education.

She conferred a Bachelor  Human Development and Family Studies at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Masters of Science in Family and Child Sciences at Florida State University. And a PhD in Community Health Education at University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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Chapters: 
@0:00 Episode teaser
@0:51 welcome to Public Health Careers
@1:23 Dr. Shemeka Thorpe, PhD, MS
@2:45 Welcome to the show
@3:00 Identify and personal background
@3:43 Black women wellbeing x sex positive frameworks 
@6:31 Thought process for career
@8:00 How to research taboo public health topics 
@8:50 #HotGirlScience
@11:30 Building a community online 
@13:49 #MakeResearchRelevant
@14:33 Community Invite
@15:14 What is public health?
@16:00 Bachelors of Human Development & Family Studies at UNCG
@18:10 Triad Child Study
@20:25 Undergraduate takeaways
@23:34 Master of Sciences in Family and Child Sciences at FSU
@26:05 Advice for looking at research 
@29:40 Master program takeaways
@30:35 PhD thought process 
@33:20 Learning about public health
@35:37 MS Family & Child Science vs MPH
@35:20 PhD in Community Health Education at UNCG
@36:47 Career path for MS Family & Child Sciences programs
@37:30 Experiences during PhD
@38:35 Co-Founding The Minority Sex Report
@43:50 PhD takeaways
@45:46 Post-doc Research Fellowship at University of Kentucky
@51:40 Assistant Professor at University of Kentucky 
@56:05 Advice to share insights on social media
@57:20 Connection + future predictions
@58:47 Join our Community
@59:28 The Furious Five
@1:02:45 Checking out

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