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- "Race", Racism, and the Practice of Epidemiology
Invited commentary in response to Jay Kaufman and Richard Cooper, Commentary: Considerations for Use of Racial/Ethnic Classification in Etiologic Research
- Allegories on race and racism | Camara Jones | TEDxEmory
Published on Jul 10, 2014
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences.
Dr. Camara Jones shares four allegories on “race” and racism. She hopes that these "telling stories" empower you to do something different, and that you will remember them and pass them on.
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 eventually lead to 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 2013. 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 both General Preventive Medicine (Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health) and Family Practice (Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Hospital).
- Camara Jones - Confronting Institutional Racism
Confronting Institutionalized Racism
Camara Phyllis Jones
Phylon (1960-)
Vol. 50, No. 1/2 (2002), pp. 7-22
Published by: Clark Atlanta University
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4149999
- Camara Jones - Levels of racism: a theoretic framework and a gardener's tale
Camara Phyllis Jones. Levels of racism: a theoretic framework and a gardener's tale. American Journal of Public Health: August 2000, Vol. 90, No. 8, pp. 1212-1215. Just do an Internet search for "Gardener's Tale" for numerous presentations of this story.
- Confronting Institutional Racism
5th Annual William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture from the 24th Annual Minority Health Conference, February 28, 2003. Moderator Kamilah Thomas. Conference home page: www.minority.unc.edu/sph/minconf/2003/.
- Confronting Institutional Racism - slides
Powerpoint slides for Dr. Jones' 2003 William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture
- Confronting Institutional Racism - Transcript
Transcript for Dr. Jones' 2003 William T. Small, Jr. Keynote Lecture, courtesy of KaiserNetwork
- David Satcher congratulates Camara (1 min 15 sec)
Vic's audio recording of the segment of David Satcher’s APHA session (11/18/2014) when it was announced that Camara had been elected APHA President-Elect (the first 17 seconds are for context – Camara was on her way out the door when David Satcher spotted her leaving).
- Racism and Health Outcomes
Camara Phyllis Jones, on the YHP (Young Health Professionals) Everything is Public Health Podcast, hosted by Linda Rae Murray and Marcus Murray. February 17, 2022
- Social Determinants of Health Disparities: Moving the Nation to Care about Social Justice
From the 18th National Health Equity Research Webcast at UNC (Camara recounts her "Gardener's Tale" near the beginning of the Q&A segment.
- Social Determinants of Health Disparities - slides
Powerpoint slides (updated) for Dr. Jones' 2012 National Health Equity Research Webcast