Greg K. Corby-Lee

Greg studied both Computer Science and Health Administration at the University of Kentucky.

His current role involves introducing local health departments to what this Initiative can offer in ways of staffing and covering most costs for harm reduction programs. He also coordinates the training of the local people that are hired by the Initiative to work in all of Kentucky’s Harm Reduction/Syringe Exchange Programs.

Greg has been involved with HIV in Kentucky for over thirty-five years, starting as a volunteer and fundraiser for AIDS in the early ‘80s. In 1986, the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department brought him onboard as the first local AIDS Coordinator in the state. During that time, he was also a Disease Intervention Specialist and provided over 7,000 HIV tests, as well as partner services for positives. In 1992, he was promoted to HIV/STD Manager at the Lexington Health Department and managed that growing program for fifteen years. In 2007, he became the HIV/AIDS Continuing Education Director with the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services/Department for Public Health. For his last few years at Kentucky Public Health, he was the state’s “point person” for Kentucky’s Harm Reduction/Syringe Exchange Program efforts. When Greg took this role, there were only three syringe exchange programs in Kentucky. By his retirement from Kentucky Public Health in 2018, there were forty-three counties with syringe exchanges.