"Webb’s career in teaching and administration spans some 40 years. She was a classroom teacher, department chairperson and personnel administrator in the Wake County school system. Since her retirement in 1984, she has been a community advocate, devoting countless hours to helping others and working on boards, commissions, task forces and networking with organizations to plan, implement and monitor programs that impact health, family life and education.
"Through service on the Wake County Board of Health, she emerged as president and founding member of Strengthening the Black Family, a Raleigh-based nonprofit focused on improving the quality of life in uplifting the Wake County minority community. The Kellogg Foundation tapped Webb to lead its Community Based Public Health Initiative to address inequities in the health of the nation’s ethnic minorities. She is heralded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as an expert in community based participatory research and for building support for programs addressing chronic health challenges impacting communities of color. She was recognized by the National Community Based Organization Network of the Community-Based Public Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association through the 2006 creation of the annual Lucille Webb Award.
"Her collaboration with University partners at Carolina has been extensive. In represented Strengthening the Black Family on the North Carolina Coalition of the Kellogg Foundation’s Community-Based Public Health Initiative, she has: taught and mentored students and faculty in the competencies they need to be successful community-engaged scholars; served on the program’s National Advisory Committee and a state-wide Institutional Review Board; chaired the executive team for Project DIRECT, a diabetes research development project; and served as community course director for the Faculty Engaged Scholars Program. Balancing these many roles, her insight, guidance and skill in forming successful community-academic partnerships were key to the success of these programs and to advancing knowledge in addressing health disparities."
