Vice President, Moffitt Diversity, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA

B. Lee Green, Ph.D., is the Vice President of Moffitt Diversity and Professor, Health Outcomes and Behaviour at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Centre & Research Institute. Prior to joining Moffitt, he was an Associate Professor in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University. He was also the Director of the Texas A&M University Centre for the Study of Health Disparities.

Dr. Green’s research interests focus on health promotion and disease prevention in the African American community, particularly minority participation in research studies. As a result of Dr. Green’s work in the area of minority participation in research studies, he was invited to be a participant on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee and was invited to the White House for the formal governmental apology. He serves on various national and regional advisory boards. Dr. Green received a joint Ph.D. from the University of Alabama and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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