Professor Camara Jones shared some core concepts from her work on race and racism talking us through the importance of recognising and understanding current issues as well as focusing on ways to address structural and systemic challenges to help overcome. She explored these concepts in conversation with Dr Gwenetta Curry before responding to questions from the audience.
Speaker
Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD
Camara Phyllis Jones is a family physician and epidemiologist who is currently a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London.
Camara's work focuses on naming, measuring, and addressing the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of our nation and the world. Her allegories on "race" and racism illuminate topics that are otherwise difficult for many people to understand or discuss: that racism exists, racism is a system, racism saps the strength of the whole society, and we can act to dismantle racism.
Professor Jones taught six years as an Assistant Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and served fourteen years as a Medical Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She was a 2019-2020 Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University, a 2021 Presidential Visiting Fellow at the Yale School of Medicine, and the 2021-2022 UCSF Presidential Chair at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Morehouse School of Medicine.
She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Past President of the American Public Health Association.
Professor Jones earned her BA in Molecular Biology from Wellesley College, her MD from the Stanford University School of Medicine, and both her Master of Public Health and her PhD in Epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. She completed residency training in General Preventive Medicine at Johns Hopkins and in Family Medicine at the Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center.
Chair
Gwenetta Curry, Lecturer of Race, Ethnicity, and Health at the University of Edinburgh's Usher Institute
Gwenetta's research interests are Racial & Ethnic Health Disparities, Critical Race Theory, & Black Family Studies. Her present research analyzes racial disparities in treatment and infection rates of Covid-19. She coauthored UNCOVERed's “What is the Evidence on Ethnic Variation on Covid-19 Incidence and Outcomes,” and “Sharpening the global focus on ethnicity and in the time of COVID-19."
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