page_title: Phillips Foster Greene
section_title: Transition from Turkey
hierarchical_section_title: Phillips Foster Greene / Career / Transition from Turkey
context_page_description: Phillips Foster Greene was an American doctor who, in collaboration with the Yale-China Association, pioneered medical missions to China from 1923 to 1943, and to Burma from 1951 to 1953. Greene was most known for his contribution to the Chinese health system through his leadership of the Hsiang-Ya Medical School, and as Director of the American Red Cross in China. In addition to evangelical motives, he focused especially on sustainability and collaboration with local groups, a concept not to be widely considered until decades later.
context_section_description: While living in Constantinople, Turkey on the commission of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions political unrest made medical work in Turkey impossible for Greene. Following the Allied Peace Terms of World War I, Turkish authorities aimed to minimize foreign influence; American doctors were no longer welcome. The hospital in Anatolia, to which Greene had been assigned, was closed. Greene and his wife lived in Turkey from 1921-1923.
caption: Location of Changsha, Hunan province, China
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