About
Myeshia Price (she/they) is an Associate Professor in Human Development in the Counseling and Educational Psychology Department of Indiana University and Associate Research Scientist at Kinsey Institute. Dr. Price has more than fifteen years of experience in adolescent public health research, with a focus on sexuality, gender, and LGBTQ youth from an intersectional perspective. After completing their PhD in developmental psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with research focusing on predicting early sexual behaviors during adolescence, they were an Assistant Professor at the State the University of New York at Old Westbury prior to taking a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at the Center for Innovative Public Health Research (CiPHR) and most recently served as the Director of Research Science at The Trevor Project. Her primary research interest areas include developmental understandings of adolescent gender and sexuality and reducing LGBTQ youth mental health disparities with a particular focus on the role of protective factors.
Current Work
Dr. Price's research explores suicide prevention among LGBTQ youth with a specific focus not only on how multiple identities intersect in such a way that may increase the risk for suicide but also on how some identities, or having multiple, might be protective.
Research Area Keyword(s)
LGBTQ youth, mental health, protective factors, suicide, transgender and nonbinary