Lawrence Green, DrPH, DSc(Hon) is a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the School of Medicine and member of the Comprehensive Cancer Center and Center for Tobacco Research and Education, University of California at San Francisco. He formerly served as Director of CDC’s World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Global Tobacco Control, Acting Director of the Office on Smoking and Health, Director of CDC’s Office of Science and Extramural Research, and Associate Director for Prevention Research and Academic Partnerships in the Public Health Practice Program Office. He has served on the public health faculties at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Texas, and University of British Columbia. He was the first Director of the U.S. Office of Health Information and Health Promotion in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health under the Carter Administration, and as Vice President of the Kaiser Family Foundation. Dr. Green was the first recipient of the AAHB’s Laureate Medal. He also is a past President and Distinguished Fellow of the Society for Public Health Education, Emeritus Fellow of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and a recipient of the American Public Health Association's Distinguished Career Award and the Award of Excellence. He was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in 2009.