Theresa Greene Reed

Biography

Theresa Wilhelmina Green Reed (December 9, 1923 – July 10, 2017) was an American physician and epidemiologist. Reed worked as a staff and public health physician for around 18 years at the Homer G. Phillips Hospital. Later, she went to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) where in 1968 she became the first African American woman to work as an epidemiologist.

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