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Keynote
“If We Want More Evidence-based Practice,
We Need More Practice-based Evidence”
Lawrence W. Green, Dr.P.H.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics,
Co-Director of Society, Diversity and Disparities
Program,
School of Medicine and Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of California at San Francisco
Keynote Address at 8:15 a.m.
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Lawrence W. Green, before recently "retiring"
to UCSF, was Director of the Office of Science
and Extramural Research for CDC. He has been on
the public health and medical faculties of
Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Texas, and the
University of British Columbia in Canada. He was
the first Director of the Office of Health
Promotion under the Carter Administration, and a
Vice President of the Henry J. Kaiser Family
Foundation. He has received the highest awards
of the American Public Health Association, the
Society for Public Health Education, the
Association for the Advancement of Health
Education, the International Union for Health
Promotion and Education, and the American
Academy of Health Behavior, and an Honorary
Doctor of Science degree from the University of
Waterloo in Canada. He has published several
books and over 300 articles on program planning,
evidence and evaluation issues in health
services and public health. He has served on the
US Preventive Services Task Force and now on the
Task Force on Community Preventive Services, as
Associate Editor of the Annual Reviews of Public
Health, and on the Editorial Boards of 13 other
journals.
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