Dr. B. Lee Green, whose research interests focus on health promotion and disease prevention in the African-American community, will be speaking on campus during Black History Month.

The presentation about 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., Feb. 18, 2009, in FLG 260 and will be about an hour long, including a Q & A session.

Green is the vice president of the Office of Institutional Diversity at the Moffitt Cancer Center Research Institute 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 Ph.D. from the University of Alabama and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. 

The presentation is free and open to the public.

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