National Advisory Council: Speights Biography

Professor and Chair, Family Medicine and Rural Health
College of Medicine
Florida State University

Joedrecka S. Brown Speights, M.D., is professor and chair of family medicine and rural health at Florida State University College of Medicine and a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. She is the 2018 recipient of the Florida State University Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Distinguished Service Award. Her experience includes serving as medical director of the National Community Center of Excellence in Women’s Health in the Office of Women’s Health at the Department of Health and Human Services at Turley Family Health Center (USF Morton Plant Mease Family Medicine Residency)—where she practiced full-scope family medicine, including operative obstetrics and global health.

Dr. Speights is an inaugural fellow of the George Washington University Leaders for Health Equity International Fellowship (now Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity) and a 2021 Gold Humanism Honor Society inductee. Her interests include promotion of health equity through community-engaged research, clinical care, advocacy, and education. She is also focused on faculty vitality, mentoring, wellness promotion, and empowerment of women and girls. In 2021, she became a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine.

Joedrecka S. Brown Speights, M.D. (2023)
Professor and Chair, Family Medicine and Rural Health
Co-Chair Wellness Committee
College of Medicine
Florida State University
1115 West Call Street
Tallahassee, FL 32306-4300
Phone: (850) 644-4543 
Email: joedrecka.brown@med.fsu.edu