Camara Phyllis Jones

Biography

Camara Phyllis Jones (born August 16, 1955) 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. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Jones proposed that racism was putting minority groups in the United States at greater risk of contracting COVID-19 and having severe outcomes from the infection and called for actions to address structural racism.

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