| Biographical
Sketch:
Camara
Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD is Research Director on Social
Determinants of Health in the Division of Adult and Community
Health, National
Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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. As a methodologist, she has developed new
methods for comparing full distributions of data (rather
than 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 Assistant Professor at the Harvard School of Public
Health in the Department of Health and Social Behavior, the
Department of Epidemiology, and the Division of Public Health
Practice from 1994 - 2000. From January through September,
1999 she was also an Ian Axford Fellow in Public Policy,
working in the Maori Health Branch of the New Zealand Ministry
of Health in Wellington, New Zealand on the question, "Maori-Pakeha
Health Disparities: Can Treaty Settlements Reverse the Impacts
of Racism?"
Dr. Jones currently serves on the Board of Directors of the National Black
Women's Health Project, the Executive Board of the American
Public Health Association, and the Board of Directors of
the American College of Epidemiology. |
