Achieving Health Equity: Tools for a National Conversation on Racism
Monday, May 9, 2016
5:00 PM-7:00 PM
Camara Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, will present the 2016 Jonathan Mann Health and Human Rights Memorial Lecture.
Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD is President of the American Public Health
Association, and a Senior Fellow at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute and
the Cardiovascular Research Institute, Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr. Jones is a family physician and
epidemiologist whose work focuses on the impacts of racism on the health and
well-being of the nation. She seeks to
broaden the national health debate to include not only universal access to high
quality health care, but also attention to the social determinants of health
(including poverty) and the social determinants of equity (including racism).
As a methodologist, she has
developed new methods for comparing full distributions of data, rather than
simply comparing means or proportions, in order to investigate population-level
risk factors and propose population-level interventions.
As a social epidemiologist, her
work on "race"-associated differences in health outcomes goes beyond
documenting those differences to vigorously investigating the structural causes
of the differences.
As a teacher, her allegories on
"race" and racism illuminate topics that are otherwise difficult for
many Americans to understand or discuss.
She hopes through her work to initiate a national conversation on racism
that will result in a National Campaign Against Racism.
Dr. Jones was
an Assistant Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1994 to
2000, and a Medical Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
from 2000 to 2014. She received
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 also completed residency
training in General Preventive Medicine (Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and
Public Health) and in Family Practice (Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore
Hospital).
Lecture is free and open to the community. RSVP
Online.
About the Lecture Series
The lecture series is named after Jonathan Mann, MD, MPH (1947-1998), the renowned humanitarian and founding dean of the School of Public Health. Although he served as the school's founding dean for less than a year, Dr. Mann’s vision, passion, and leadership forever instilled the values of public health as a human right at the School. These values continue to drive our research, teaching and the practice of public health.
Thanks to D. Walter Cohen, DDS, HD ‘09.
Contact Information
Ginene Mahoney, MAUS
215.762.2268
vhm25@drexel.edu