Spring Cooper

Spring Cooper (born Spring Chenoa Cooper, July 6, 1980) is an American academic and author.

Career

Cooper finished her PhD in 2006 at Pennsylvania State University,[1] She worked for a year at Penn State in the office for Health Promotion and Wellness. Since then she completed a postdoc at George Washington University, a postdoc at the University of Sydney, and then began working as a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney.[2] As of January 2015, Dr. Cooper is an associate professor for the City University of New York, School of Public Health.

Books

Cooper has written a children's book that is available for purchase from Amazon,[3] either in paper or Kindle form.[4] The book is "The Secret. Period." and chronicles the story of two sisters as the eldest gets her first period. When the older sister gets her first period, she keeps it secret from her little sister and the little sister feels left out and lonely, but she doesn't know why her sister isn't talking to her. The story offers a brief explanation of menstruation, but is more broadly a book that has menstruation as part of the story, thus giving parents and older siblings a way to break taboos around menstruation and converse about it more openly.

Media

Cooper has written several articles for The Conversation,[5] an online forum that is an intersection of academia and the popular press. She has also been interviewed by several radio shows.[6]

Academic publications

Her expertise is in sexual health, specifically adolescent sexual health. She does both quantitative and qualitative research, and specializes in conducting focus groups with adolescents.[7] She has worked extensively in social research about HPV vaccination in Australia,[8] including a large educational research project for adolescents.[9]

Personal life

Cooper grew up in a military family, moving all over the US as a child. She has one younger sister. Spring blogs about her life as a yoga student and yoga teacher. She was married and has also published under the last name "Cooper Robbins."

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References
  1. "Biobehavioral Health Alumni Profile: Spring Chenoa Cooper Robbins, Ph.D." Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  2. "Dr Spring Cooper". Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  3. Spring Chenoa Cooper, Ph. d.; Grimshaw, Ben (2012-10-08). The Secret. Period. ISBN 978-1480052772.
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20141129115612/http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-Period-Spring-Cooper-ebook/dp/B009Q15CZC. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved September 10, 2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  5. "Spring Chenoa Cooper". The Conversation. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  6. "The Big O". Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  7. "Dr Spring Cooper". Retrieved 25 November 2014.
  8. "Getting youth involved in health decisions - Dr Spring Chenoa Cooper - 20 September 2013". YouTube. Retrieved 25 November 2014.


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