Moffitt Cancer Center researcher to discuss African-American health disparities

February 16, 2009

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A Moffitt Cancer Center researcher, whose research focuses on health promotion and disease prevention in the African-American community, will speak at the University of Florida during Black History Month.

B. Lee Green’s discussion of reducing racial and ethnic health disparities is part of the Florida Center for Health Promotion Speaker Series, sponsored by FCHP and the department of health education behavior. It will take place at 4:05 p.m. Wednesday in Florida Gymnasium Room 260. The program will last about an hour, including a question-and-answer session.

Green is the vice president of the Office of Institutional Diversity at the Moffitt Cancer Center Research Institute in Tampa and a professor of health outcomes and behavior.

Before joining Moffitt, he was an associate professor in the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University. He also was the director of the Texas A&M University Center for the Study of Health Disparities.

Green serves on various national and regional advisory boards and received a joint doctoral degree from the University of Alabama and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

The presentation is free and open to the public.