This summer, June 1 – July 9,  Dr. Spring Cooper is teaching Sexual Health Promotion on Tues & Thurs 5:30-8:30 PM on the Hunter campus. No prereqs, but some understanding of health promotion/evaluation is expected. 

Sexual Health Promotion counts as an elective for NUTR-MPH students. It also counts as one of the three MCH courses required for NUTR-MPH students in the Maternal/Child concentration.

The course focuses on applying health promotion principles to sexual health. Topics covered include sexuality frameworks and priority populations, examination of sexual health data, and planning and evaluating sexual health promotion interventions and messages.

Dr. Cooper is a social researcher with academic qualifications in public health, health promotion, and sexuality. Her academic background is in BioBehavioral Health, an interdisciplinary approach to health and disease prevention.  She spent the last seven years at The University of Sydney where she built her research program in adolescent sexual health. She was appointed this spring to the SPH faculty and has been teaching in the doctoral program.