Mitchell Tepper, PhD, MPH

Mitchell Tepper, Ph.D. M.P.H. is Founder and President of The Sexual Health Network and SexualHealth.com. Dr. Tepper is a nationally recognized sexuality educator, researcher, author, and advocate dedicated to ending the silence around issues of sexuality and disability. His years of research at Yale University, Rutgers University, and the University of Pennsylvania have served as the basis for numerous professional, academic, and public presentations, articles, and chapters.

His publications include: Lived Experiences that Impede or Facilitate Pleasure and Orgasm in People with Spinal Cord Injury; Providing Comprehensive Sexual Health Care in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation: Continuing Education and Training for Health Professional, and; Love Bites, a monthly column in New Mobility magazine. Dr. Tepper serves on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT), the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), and the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health.

Dr. Tepper is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Sexuality and Disability. He is an Assistant Professor at Quinnipiac University and a regular guest lecturer at the Yale University School of Medicine.

Dr. Tepper has a Master's degree in Public Health from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Human Sexuality Education from the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to academic credentials, Dr. Tepper, who grew up with Crohn's Disease and acquired a spinal cord injury at age 20, brings a lifetime of first-hand experience with chronic illness and disability to his work.