Curriculum Vitae – Lawrence W. Green
CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME: LAWRENCE W. GREEN Revised: May 16, 2013
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PERSONAL: Born, September 16, 1940 (Bell, California).
Citizenship, United States; Canadian Permanent Resident Visa, 1991-99
EDUCATION: University of California, Berkeley, B.S., 1962, public health, social sciences and biological sciences; M.P.H., 1966; Dr.P.H. 1968, public health education, minors in demography and psychometrics.
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PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
June 1957 to June 1962 – Part-time positions: Teaching Assistant (Community Health) and Research Assistant, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 1961-62; Statistical Assistant, Department of Physiology, University of California, Berkeley, 1960-62.
June 1962 to September 1963 – Full-time externships: Commissioned Officer Student Training and Extern Program (COSTEP), US Public Health Service, San Francisco and Washington, DC. Student Professional Assistant, Bureau of Health Education, California State Department of Public Health, Berkeley. Field Training for M.P.H., Contra Costa County Health Department, Martinez, CA.
September 1963 to September 1965 – Ford Foundation Project Associate, University of California Public Health Education Research Project (East Pakistan Research and Evaluation Center), Dacca (now Dhaka, Bangladesh). Family planning research, training and program planning in Dacca and demographic research in Karachi for the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics.
July 1, 1968 to June 30, 1970 – Lecturer in Public Health and Coordinator, Doctoral Research Training in Public Health Education, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley.
July 1, 1970 to June 30, 1972 – Assistant Professor of Public Health Administration and Population Dynamics, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University. Developed the graduate training programs in public health education and family planning communications, and the Johns Hopkins Extension M.P.H. program in Washington, DC.
July 1, 1972 to June 30, 1977 – Assistant Dean; founding Head, Division of Health Education; Associate Professor of Health Services Administration, Population Dynamics, and Behavioral Sciences, School of Hygiene and Public Health, The Johns Hopkins University. Founding Director of health education training programs (M.P.H., Sc.M., Dr.P.H., Sc.D.) jointly with Departments of Health Services Administration and Population Dynamics and Center for Health Services Research and Development. Project Director, first Johns Hopkins Extension M.P.H. Program in Washington, DC. Director of Continuing Education programs of the School.
July 1, 1977 to June 10, 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; Director of NIH-funded doctoral and postdoctoral research training programs in cancer and cardiovascular risk reduction; Director of Health Education Studies, Health Services Research and Development Center, and of Community Core for the Oncology Center, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions.
June 11, 1979 to June 30, 1981 – First 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.
July 1, 1981 to June 30, 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).
July 1, 1981 to January 31, 1988 – founding Director, Center for Health Promotion Research and Development
(a World Health Organization Collaborating Center, 1987‑88 budget $3 million), The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Professor, Department of Family Practice and Community Medicine, The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. Professor of Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas School of Public Health. Founding Co‑Director, Southwest Center for Prevention Research (one of first 3 CDC-funded Prevention Research Centers); Associate Director, Institute for Health Policy Education and Research: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
February 1, 1988 to March 31, 1991 – Vice President, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Director of the Health Promotion Programs.
April 1, 1991 to September 30, 1991 – Visiting Research Social Scientist, Institute for Health Policy Studies, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco.
July 1, 1991 to August 15, 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.
August 16, 1999 to September 16, 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, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Atlanta.
February 1, 2001 to September 16, 2001 – Acting Director, Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Atlanta. Member of U.S. Delegation to the Framework Convention Treaty Negotiations on Tobacco Control, World Health Organization.
August 27, 2001 to August 30, 2004 -- Director, Office of Science & Extramural Research; Associate Director for Prevention Research and Academic Partnerships, Public Health Practice Program Office, Distinguished Fellow/Visiting Scientist, Centers for Disease Prevention (CDC), U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Atlanta. Visiting Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University.
September 1, 2004 to April 15, 2005 – Visiting Professor, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley. January 1 to June 30, 2005 Visiting Professor, Health and Society Program, University of Maryland College of Health and Human Performance, College Park, Maryland (25% time).
April 15, 2005 to present – Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco; Program Leader 2005-06, Social and Behavioral Sciences; Co-Leader, 2007-2010, Society, Diversity and Disparities Program, UCSF Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Center (30% time). Member 2008-2012, Community Engagement and Health Policy Program of the UCSF Clinical Translational Science Institute; faculty of the Society and Health Scholars Program of UCSF and UC Berkeley; and the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.
OTHER ACADEMIC, RESEARCH, BOARD & CONSULTING APPOINTMENTS (reverse chronological):
2004-present
Elected Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Science, October 2009. Member, Committee to develop a framework for evidence on childhood obesity control, 2008-10; Committee on Valuing Nonclinical Community Prevention Policies and Wellness Strategies, 2011-2012. Chair, Committee on Evaluation of Nation’s Accelerating Obesity Control, 2012-2013.
Consultant, Grant Review Panels, National Prevention Research Initiative, Medical Research Council of the U.K., London, 2008- 2011; Tryg Foundation, Copenhagen, 2008-2010; Zon/MW national health research funding agency of the Netherlands, 2009-2010; National Health Institute of Portugal, Lisbon, 2009; Michael Smith Foundation, BC Canada, 2008-10; Co-leader of Study Tour of Public Health and Health Promotion in Canada for University of Wisconsin, 2009. Consultant to CDC National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Divisions of Oral Health, Nutrition and Physical Activity, Adolescent and School Health, Adult and Community Health (Prevention Research Centers), and Diabetes Translation, 2006-2009.
Group Health Cooperative Foundation’s Center for Community Research and Evaluation, 2005 and 2007.
CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, on Dissemination, Oct. 2004. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) two National Advisory Committees: on Practice-Based Research Network grants program; and on the RWJF Clinical Scholars Program, 2004-2011. Constella Health Group, 2004. National Human Genomic Research Institute, Behavioral and Social Research Branch, 2010.
Chair: peer review panels for research grant reviews of CDC, 2006,’08; Co-chair, CDC-sponsored Expert Panel to recommend national strategy for primary prevention of Type 2 diabetes, 2005-06 (see J Fam Prac 2012); chaired site visits to Yale Univ & Univ Michigan Clinical Scholars Programs Prevention Panel, Cancer Prevention Research Initiative of Texas, 2010-2012. Chair, National Advisory Committee for Salud America, RWJF grant program for obesity control studies in Hispanic populations.
Consultant and Co-Chair, Association of Schools of Public Health and Legacy Foundation, STEP-UP Conferences in St. Louis, Chicago, and Nashville to review and strengthen initiatives on tobacco control teaching and research in schools of public health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2009-10; CDC-sponsored Committee to Plan the National Randomized Trial to Test the PolyPill, a proposed (BMJ, 2003) pharmaceutical combination of 5 preventive ingredients that could reduce heart attacks and strokes by over 80%, 2004-05. Chair, National Advisory Committee, Salud America! for research on obesity control in Latino populations for Robert Wood Johnson grant program, 2006-present. Chair, International Expert Panel of the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion (OAHPP) Smoke Free Ontario Scientific Advisory Committee, 2009-2010; Chair, International Expert Advisory Panel for Evaluation of Community Health projects funded by the Ministry of Health and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Vancouver, BC, 2008-10; Chair, International Advisory Board for CAPTURE: Canadian Platform to Increase Usage of Real-World Evidence, 2010-2012; Chair, National Advisory Board, University of Arkansas Medical University (NIH) Center of Excellence on Minority Health, 2010-2013. Co-chair, Annual Report to Congress for Task Force on Community Preventive Services, 2011.
Boards of Directors, Pacific Institute for Health Research, 2008-2013 (2 terms); member, Audit Committee 2008-10; Governance Committee, 2010-13. Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, 2005-2008. North American Quitline Consortium, 2010-2011. Founding board of directors of Health Promotion Advocates, 2008-2011, promoting passage of several laws in the Affordable Care Act and workplace health promotion. http://healthpromotionadvocates.org, 2004-2011. North American Quitlines Consortium, 2011-2013.
Member, US Community Preventive Services Task Force, 2007-2012. Member, Methods Subcommittee; Health Communications Review Steering Committee; Tobacco Control reviews; and Co-Chair, Committee for the Task Force’s Report to Congress, 2010-11. Chair, External Advisory Board to Institute of Health Promotion Research, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, 2008-2011. Dean’s External Advisory Board, University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, 2006-2011. Member, California Breast Cancer Research Program Advisory Council, 2008-2009. National Advisory Board, Prevention Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2005-.
Appointed by Governor to California Tobacco Education and Research Oversight Committee, 2006-2009; re-appointed, 2010-2013.
International Review Panel for External Review of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Feb 2006.
Board of Scientific Counselors, National Human Genomics and Health Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, 2004-2008. Chair, NIH-Johns Hopkins Genetics Counseling Graduate Training Program. Keynote address to the annual scientific retreat of NHGRI scientific staff.
Member, International Collaboration on Complex Interventions. An annual meeting of collaborators from Australia, Canada, UK, and USA, supported by an Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement Teams Grant Program of the Canadian Institute for Health Research through the University of Calgary International Collaborative Center for the Study of Social and Physical Environments and Health, 2004- 2010.
Visiting Professor, Wageningen University, the Netherlands, Oct 2005; Nov 2008; April 2009; March 2011. Faculty, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Society and Health Scholars Program, University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco, 2010-. Health and Society Visiting Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Health, College Park, 2004-05; Visiting Professor, University of California School of Public Health, 2004-05.
2002-2004 (during CDC appointments when external affiliations limited to avoid conflicts of interest):
Visiting Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 20% time 2002-04.
Mentor, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Substance Abuse Leadership Fellows Program.
Faculty, Swiss Health Promotion Foundation annual workshop, Vitznau, Switzerland.
Chair, Board of Visitors, University of Maryland College of Health and Human Performance (now School of Public Health), College Park, MD. Term ended Oct. 2005.
1999-2001:
Appointed by Clinton Administration as member of U.S. delegation to the Framework Convention for Tobacco Control, and the Federal Interagency Working Group on FCTC Negotiating Guidance, representing CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services. Resigned May 2001.
Evaluation Advisory Committees of the State of California and State of Florida Tobacco Control Programs.
Resigned most of the consulting and board appointments listed below in 1999 to avoid conflicts of interest in government position.
1995–1999:
Adjunct Professor, Department of Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine. Senior Associate, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University. Faculty Associate, Institute of Health Promotion Research, University of British Columbia. Director and PI, BC Satellite Research Center, Canadian Sociobehavioural Cancer Research Network. Consultant, National Cancer Institute of Canada; Hills Ranch and Health Spa; Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research; Vancouver Foundation; Health Promotion Directorate, Health Canada; Japan Culture and Health Promotion Center, Tokyo; World Health Organization, Geneva; Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; University of Zurich, Switzerland, University of Sydney School of Public Health; National Institute for Dental Research (NIH); USAID and Ministry of Health, Indonesia. Vice Chancellor’s Best Practices Research Scholar, University of Newcastle, Australia, Aug.-Sept. 1996. Board of Visitors, Columbia University School of Nursing, 1995-98. Chancellor's Council, University of Texas System, 1996-98. PI or Co-PI on new grants from Health Promotion Directorate and Division of Research and Program Policy, Health Canada; BC Health Research Foundation; National Cancer Institute of Canada.
1994–1999:
Endowed Professorship in Health Promotion, University of British Columbia. Commissioned paper for Health and Welfare Canada, 1994. PI or Co-PI on new grants from BC Health Research Foundation; Health Canada; National Cancer Institute of Canada (1994-99); Medical Research Council of Canada (1994-95); Health Canada; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council; Heart and Stroke Foundation. Directed study team on Participatory Research in Health Promotion for the Royal Society of Canada.
1993–1999:
Co-Director and PI, BC Consortium for Health Promotion Research (1993-1998). Consultant, Kansas Health Foundation; Canadian Steering Committee on Enhancing Preventive Practices of Health Professionals. Senior Advisor, US Preventive Services Task Force, 1993-98. Commissioned papers for B.C. Telephone Co., 1993; American Heart Association, 1993; Royal Society of Canada, 1993-94; Scientific Advisory Board, University of Hawaii Center for Health Promotion Research, 1993. PI or Co-PI on new grants from Alcohol and Drug
Programs, BC Ministry of Health (1993-95); BC Health Research Foundation (1993-96); National Health Research and Development Program and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
(1993-97); Kaiser Youth Foundation.