Camara P. Jones

Camara Phyllis Jones is assistant professor at the Department of Health and Social Behavior, Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Massachusetts. Dr. Jones is a family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on the health effects of racism in the United States. Dr. Jones has worked with the Roxbury Heart Center to develop a network of neighborhood health advisers and to conduct a population-based survey of cardiovascular risk factors in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. She also serves on the Public Health Commission Board for the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Jones recently returned from New Zealand where she spent eight months based at the Ministry of Health as an Ian Axford Fellow in Public Policy. She combined a study of Maori health policy, the Treaty of Waitangi, and the impacts of racism within New Zealand society in her work entitled “Maori-Pakeha Health Disparities: Can Treaty Settlements Reverse the Impacts of Racism?” Dr. Jones has an M.D. from Stanford University School of Medicine, and a M.P.H. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Maryland.