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This event will feature Professor Camara Phyllis Jones in conversation with Professor Graham Lord on the topic of racism in health and how it can be addressed. The discussion will be chaired by Dr Tanisha Spratt.

About the speakers

Professor Camara Phyllis Jones

Camara Phyllis Jones is a family physician and epidemiologist who was a Leverhulme Visiting Professor in the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine at King’s College London in 2022-2023 and continues as a Visiting Professor. Her work focuses on naming, measuring, and addressing the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the United States and the world. In addition to academic roles at universities including Harvard University, University of California-San Francisco, Emory University, and Morehouse School of Medicine, she served for fourteen years as a Medical Officer at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Past President of the American Public Health Association, she is renowned for agenda-setting leadership addressing racism as a public health crisis.

Professor Graham Lord

Graham Lord is the Senior Vice-President, Health & Life Sciences, King’s College London, Executive Director, King’s Health Partners and Chief Academic Officer & Board Director, Guy’s & St. Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts. His clinical academic interests include multi-organ transplantation and the immunogenetics of transplant survival. He was previously Vice-President at the University of Manchester and Dean of the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, a Consultant Transplant Nephrologist at Manchester NHS Foundation Trust and Executive Director of the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (2019-2024). He also has a long-term interest in academic healthcare systems and how they can drive improvements to human health in an equitable and sustainable manner.

Dr Tanisha Spratt (Moderator and Chair)

Tanisha Spratt is a Senior Lecturer in Racism and Health in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at KCL. Her research examines the interface between racism-induced health outcomes and holistic anti-racist health approaches, with a particular focus on how neoliberal narratives of personal responsibility, deservedness, and grievability shape understandings of illness, death, and dying in the UK and US.

The conversation will be followed by a reception with light refreshments.

This event is made possible with support from Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Projects & Partnerships, the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, and the GHSM Anti-racism Steering Group.

Martin Luther King Day Lecture: Confronting Racism in Health