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LAWRENCE W. GREEN, DRPH

Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF
Co-Leader, Society, Diversity, and Disparities Program, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center

CONTACT

lgreen@cc.ucsf.edu
(415) 514-8115 (voice)
(415) 597-4667 (fax)

Box 0981, UCSF; San Francisco, CA 94143-0981

additional websites:

Lawrence Green Website

EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley, B.S., 1962, public health, social sciences and biological sciences University of California, Berkeley, M.P.H., 1966 University of California, Berkeley, Dr.P.H. 1968, public health education, minors in demography and psychometrics
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1962	Commissioned Officer, Student Training and Extern Program, US Public Health Service
1963	Student Professional Assistant, California State Department of Public Health, Berkeley, CA
1963	Field Training for M.P.H., Contra Costa County Health Department, Martinez, CA
1963-1965	Ford Foundation Project Associate, University of California Public Health Education Research Project (East Pakistan Research and Evaluation Centre), Dacca (now Dhaka, Bangladesh), and Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Karachi, Pakistan.
1968-1970	Lecturer in Public Health and Coordinator, Doctoral Research Training in Public Health Education, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley.
1970-1972	Assistant Professor of Public Health AdministraÂtion and Population Dynamics, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
1972-1977	Assistant Dean; founding Head, Division of Health EducaÂtion; Associate Professor of Health Services Administration, Population Dynamics, and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University.
1977-1979	Professor of Health Services Administration, Population Dynamics and Behavioral Sciences, School of Hygiene and Public Health, and of Oncology, School of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University. Head, Division of Health Education;
1979-1981	Director, U.S. Office of Health Information, Health Promotion and Physical Fitness and Sports Medicine (now Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion), in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (Surgeon General of the Public Health Service), Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C.
1981-1982	Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University, Division of Health Policy Research and Education (Department of Social Medicine and Health Policy, Harvard Medical School; and Department of Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health).
1981-1988	Director, Center for Health Promotion Research and Development (a World Health Organization Collaborating Center), University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Professor, Department of Family Practice and CommuniÂty Medicine, Medical School. Professor of Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, Houston, TX
1988-1991	Vice President, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation; Director of the Health Promotion Programs.
1991	Visiting Research Social Scientist, Institute for Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco. CA.
1991Â-1999	Director, Institute of Health Promotion Research, Faculty of Graduate Studies, and Professor and Head, Division of Preventive Medicine and Health Promotion, Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
1999-2001	Distinguished Fellow/Visiting Scientist, Office on Smoking and Health, and Director, WHO-CDC Collaborating Center on Global Tobacco Control, Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, GA
2001-2004	Director, Office of Science & Extramural Research; Associate Director for Prevention Research and Academic Partnerships, Public Health Practice Program Office, Distinguished Fellow/Visiting Scientist, CDC, Atlanta, GA.
2004-2005	Visiting Professor, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley.
2005-	Adjunct Professor, UCSF Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; and UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Population Sciences, University of California at San Francisco, CA
HONORS & AWARDS
(selected since 1985)
1985	Distinguished Fellow Award, Society for Public Health Education
1986	Commendation of the National Center for Health Education, Whitehead Forum, New York
1986	AAHE Scholar Award, Association for the Advancement of Health Education
1987	Fifth edition of Community Health selected 1st among "Books of the Year" by Amer J Nursing
1989	Professional Service Award, Association for the Advancement of Health Education
1989	First Virgnia S. DeHaan Award, Emory University, 1989.
1989	Alliance Scholar, American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 1988-89.
1990	Tribute of friends and donors, establishing the Lawrence W. Green Scholarship Award at the School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley
1991	Doyen Jacques Perisot Medal (for body of writing on research and practice), International Union for Health Promotion and Education (Paris)
1994	Alumnus of the Year Award, University of California School of Public Health, Berkeley
1994	American Public Health Association 1994 Award for Excellence ("for exceptionally meritorious contributions to the improvement of the health of the people ... creative work of particular effectiveness in applying scientific knowledge or innovative organizational work to the betterment of public health.")
1994	University of British Columbia Killam Faculty Research Prize ($10,000)
1995	Lansdowne Lecturer, University of Victoria
1996	University of Newcastle Vice Chancellor's Best Practices Research Scholar Award, Faculty of Medicine
1997	John P. McGovern Award, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston
1997	Health Promotion and Education Advocacy Award "For his advocacy to furtherÉthe science of evaluation for health promotion and disease prevention," Centers for Disease Control and the Association of State and Territorial Directors of Health Promotion and Public Health Education.
1998	Healthtrac (Fries) Foundation Public Health Education Prize for 1998 ($25,000).
2000	Elected Fellow and Recipient of First Scholar Laureate Award, American Academy of Health Behavior
2001	Special Service Award, CDC, for "outstanding leadership as Acting Director of the Office on Smoking and Health"
2002	Health Education Hall of Fame Award, Philadelphia.
2004-	Honorario Presidente, Fundaci—n para Educaci—n de Salud, Madrid, Spain..
2004-	Tribute of Society for Public Health Education, naming the award for the annual best paper in the journal, Health Education and Behavior, the Lawrence W. Green Award, from November 2004.
2004	Mayhew Derryberry Award for Behavioral and Social Science Contributions to Health Education, American Public Health Association Public Health Education and Health Promotion Section
2006	Honorary Doctor of Science degree conferred by University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
(in chronological order, most recent of 389 articles and chapters; 8 books)
Green, L.W. From research to "best practices" in other settings and populations (Research Laureate address). American Journal of Health Behavior 25:165-178, April-May 2001. Full text: www.ajhb.org/25-3.htm.
Green, L.W., Nathan, R., Mercer, S.L. The health of health promotion in public policy: Drawing inspiration from the tobacco control movement. Health Prom J Australia 12(2): 12-18, 2001.
Green, L.W., Daniel, M., Novick, L. Partnerships and coalitions for community based research. Public Health Rep 2001;116:15-26.
Green LW, Mercer SL. Community-based participatory research: Can public health researchers and agencies reconcile the push from funding bodies and the pull from communities? American Journal of Public Health . 2001;91(12):1926-1929.
Green, L.W., Mercer, S.L., Rosenthal, A.C., Dietz, W.C., Husten, C.C., Possible Lessons for Physician Counseling on Obesity from the Progress in Smoking Cessation in Primary Care. Proceedings of the International Union for Nutrition Science, Vienna: IUNS, 2001. Modern Aspects of Nutrition - Present Knowledge and Future Perspectives in the book series Forum Nutrition (formerly "Bibliotheca Nutritio et Dieta"), vol 56. S.Karger Publishers, Basel, Switzerland, 2003.
Green, L.W. What is participant-centered clinical research? Chap 2 in J Aungst, A Haas, A Ommaya, LW Green (Eds.). Exploring New Models for Engaging the Public in the Clinical Research Enterprise. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine, National Academies Press, 2003 (pp. 9-23).
Green, L.W., Mercer, S.M. Participatory research. In N. Anderson (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2003.
Garfield SA, Malozowski S, Chin MH, Venkat KMN, Glasgow R, Green LW, Hiss RG, & Krumholz HM. Considerations for Diabetes Translational Research in Real-World Settings. Diabetes Care 2003;26(9): 2670-2674.
Green LW. Ethics and Community-Based Participatory Research: Commentary on Minkler. Health Educ Behav 2004; 31: 698-701.
Mercer SL, MacDonald G, Green LW. Participatory research and evaluation: From best practices for all states to achievable practices within each state in the context of the Master Settlement Agreement. Health Promotion Practice, 2004;5(3): 167S-178S.
Green, L.W., Ottoson, J.M. From efficacy to effectiveness to community and back: Evidence-based practice vs practice-based evidence. In Green, L, Hiss, R., Glasgow R., et al. (Eds). From Clinical Trials to Community: The Science of Translating Diabetes and Obesity Research. Bethesda: National Institutes of Health, 2004.
Baker ES, Potter MA, Jones DL, Mercer SL, Cioffi JP, Geen LW, Halverson PK, Lichtveld MV, & Fleming DW. The public health infrastructure and our nation's health. Annual Rev of Public Health, 2005 26: p. 303.
Ottoson, J.M., & Green, L.W. Community outreach: from measuring the difference to making a difference with health information. J Med Libr Assoc. 2005 Oct;93(4 Suppl):S49-56. Ottoson, J.M., & Green, L.W. Community outreach: from measuring the difference to making a difference with health information. J Med Libr Assoc. 2005 Oct;93(4 Suppl):S49-56. [Full text online]
Mercer, S.L., Green, L.W., Nathan, R., Rosenthal, A.C., Dietz, W.C. Drawing possible lessons for obesity prevention from the tobacco control experience. In D. Crawford & R. Jeffreys (Eds.). Obesity as a Public Health Problem. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Green LW. Public health asks of systems science: To strengthen our evidence-based practice, can you help us get more practice-based evidence? American Jour Public Health, 2006;95(3), 406-409.
Green, L.W., & Glasgow, R. (2006). Evaluating the relevance, generalization, and applicability of research. Issues in external validation and translation methodology. Evaluation & the Health Professions, 29(1): 1-28, 2006.
Glasgow RE, Green LW, Klesges LM, Abrams DB, Fisher EB, Goldstein MG, Hayman LL, Ockene JK, Orleans CT. External validity: we need to do more. Annals of Behavioral Med. 2006 Apr;31(2):105-8.
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