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Lillie J. Head (she/her/hers)

President
Voices for Our Fathers Legacy Foundation
Wirtz, Virginia, United States

Lillie Jewel Tyson Head, BS, MS, Ed.Ms.
Mrs. Lillie Jewel Tyson Head is the seventh child of Freddie Lee Tyson and Johnnie Mae Neal Tyson. Her father was one of the 625 men that were inhumanely and unethically treatment in the United States Public Health Service Study of Untreated Syphilis (USPHSSUS) in the Negro Male at Tuskegee and Macon County, Alabama, 1932-1972. Lillie is the founding President of Voices For Our Fathers Legacy Foundation. As president, Lillie Head works tirelessly keeping alive the men’s legacies and honoring their sacrifices. Pursuant of this quest she has become an deeply engaged dismantling racial health policies and strongly advocating for health equity for African Americans.

For the past 4 years Lillie Head has participated in many interviews with the national and international news media, podcasts, news magazines, documentaries about the USPHSSUS, and public service announcements promoting COVID -19 vaccines. She has presented at Harvard University Center for Bioethics, Boston College School of Public Health, Thomas Jefferson University Sydney Kimmel Medical School, University of Alabama at Birmingham Medical School, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy,
Srycause University Public, Baptist Hospitals of Southwest Texas and California Association of African American Superintends and Administrators.

She is a graduate of the Tuskegee Institute now Tuskegee University, Southern Connecticut State University, and the University of Bridgeport. She is a retired public educator and consultant after 33 years in Waterbury, Connecticut. Lillie has been recognized for her community service, education and community leadership.

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