Camara Phyllis Jones

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Born (1955-08-16) August 16, 1955 (age 68)
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Camara Phyllis Jones (born August 16, 1955) [1] is an American physician, epidemiologist, and anti-racism activist who specializes in the effects of racism and social inequalities on health. She is known for her work in defining institutional racism, personally mediated racism, and internalized racism in the context of modern U.S. race relations. [2] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Jones drew attention to why racism and not race is a risk factor [3] and called for actions to address structural racism. [4] [5]

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Early life and education

Camara Phyllis Jones was born August 16, 1955, in San Francisco, California. [6] Following her graduation from high school, Jones went on to receive her B.A. in molecular biology from Wellesley College in 1976. [7] She then went on to earn her M.D. from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1981 [7] and her M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health the following year. [7] After receiving her medical degree, she completed residency training in 1983 for General Preventative Medicine at Johns Hopkins and completed a second residency training in 1986 in Family Practice at Montefiore Medical Center. [8] [9] She earned her Ph.D. in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1995. [10] The title of her dissertation was Methods for Comparing Distributions: Development and Application Exploring "Race"-Associated Differences in Systolic Blood Pressure.[ citation needed ]

Career

Jones' work focuses on naming, measuring and addressing the impacts of racism on health and well-being. [11] [12] To illustrate the effects of racism, Jones often uses allegories or stories, such as "The Gardener's Tale", which she shared in a 2000 article in the American Journal of Public Health [13] and in a TEDx talk she gave in 2014. She co-authored a chapter on Action and Allegories for the American Public Health Association book, Racism: Science & Tools for the Public Health Professional. [14]

Jones was a 2019–2020 Radcliffe Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. As a Radcliffe fellow, she is developing tools to inspire, equip, and engage all Americans in a national campaign against racism. [11] She is a Past President of the American Public Health Association (2015–2016) and a Senior Fellow at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute and the Cardiovascular Research Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine. [15] She was a Medical Officer and Research Director on Social Determinants of Health and Equity for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2000–2014). [16] [17]

Jones has delivered seven commencement speeches since 2013 at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health (2018), [12] University of Minnesota School of Public Health (2017), Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (2017), [18] CUNY School of Medicine (2017), UCSF School of Medicine (2016), UC Berkeley School of Public Health (2016), and the University of Washington School of Public Health (2013). [7]

In 2016, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. [19]

Faculty appointments

Following the completion of her residency in family practice from Montefiore Medical Center, Jones held the position of visiting assistant professor in the Department of Community Health and Social Medicine at the City University of New York Medical School from 1986 to 1987.[ citation needed ] Her first professorship was at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she held the position of assistant professor in the Departments of Health and Social Behavior, Epidemiology, and Division of Public Health Practice from 1994 to 2000. [17]

In 2003, Jones was appointed adjunct associate professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, and in 2004 she was appointed adjunct professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, and in the Department of Epidemiology.

In 2012, Jones was a visiting professor [20] at Meharry Medical College as a part of the Scholars-in-Residence Program under the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy.

She was also a "Myron and Margaret Winegarden Visiting Professor" at the University of Michigan–Flint in the Department of Public Health and Health Sciences from 2016 to 2017.

Awards and honors

Selected works and publications

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