Regina Benjamin

CTL-E-6748 · Person · physician · 1956–present

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Regina M. Benjamin (born 1956) is a family physician who founded the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in a poor Alabama fishing community, rebuilding it repeatedly after hurricanes, and served as Surgeon General of the United States from 2009 to 2013. She was the first African American woman to lead a state medical association (Alabama, 2002) and received a MacArthur 'genius' fellowship in 2008. As Surgeon General she issued the 2011 call to action on breastfeeding and a national strategy for suicide prevention.

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Merged 2026-11-02 from the staged health pioneers packet (website/.build-work/scratch-v114/health/) under the GOV-006 founder gate opened 2026-11-02; the staged record is carried verbatim — no claim upgraded in transit (GOV-004). · Roles as staged: Physician — family physician; US Surgeon General · Photo: Photo: SAMHSA from Rockville · Public domain · Source: Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._Regina_Benjamin_(9019342388).jpg) · staged for CultureTechLens Full per-asset record in this package's photo-records.json, keyed to CTL-E-6748.

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'Regina Benjamin' — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_Benjamin

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