201: Path to Public Health Communication and Marketing Consultant with Monique Thornton, MPH

Interview with Monique Thornton, MPH

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Highlights from this episode:

Journey into health communication, learning about it later into collegiate career
Journey of combining creative writing with public health and founding Let’s Talk Public Health
Helping organizations and professionals in public health communication + marketing efforts

Episode 201 of Public Health Careers

Monique is a founder and CEO of Let’s Talk Public Health, a DC based public health communication and marketing consultancy.

She has over a decade of experience in public health, health communication, and behavior change. She works with organizations, professionals, and students to effectively and creatively engage with people around public health topics and issues.

She conferred a Bachelor of Science in Community Health at University of Maryland. She worked as a Digital and Social Media Associate at Westat, where she worked on health communication contracts, creating guides, toolkits, and videos about behavioral health issues and federal programs.

During her Master of Public Health at The George Washington University – Milken Institute School of Public Health studies, she also worked as a Digital Media Consultant at Bekôz Marketing, engaging in freelance work through a friend’s business.

She has also been recognized as a Public Health Engaging and Emerging Leaders Awardee.