Racism denial is a huge barrier to achieving health and social equity in both the United States and the United Kingdom.

In this lecture, Professor Jones will share several of her allegories on "race" and racism to equip attendees to understand and communicate four key messages:

• Racism exists
• Racism is a system
• Racism saps the strength of the whole society
• We can act to dismantle racism

About the speaker

Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD is a family physician, epidemiologist and Past President of the American Public Health Association, whose work focuses on naming, measuring and addressing the impacts of racism on the health and wellbeing of the United States and the world.

She is celebrated for her allegories on "race" and racism, teaching stories which illuminate topics that are otherwise difficult for many people to understand or discuss.

She is currently a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at King's, spending the 2022-2023 academic year focused on building research capacity in anti-racism and health.

This lecture is part of a series on Anti-racism and Health, funded by the Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship grant. It follows on from the first Anti-racism and Health lecture: Levels of Health Intervention.

Watch the replay of Part 1