Dr. Camara Jones Should Be Surgeon General
Here's an email I posted to President Obama, Senator Isakson, Senator Chambliss, and Representative Broun on March 4, 2009.
I would like to recommend that Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PHD, Research Director of Health and Equity in the Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, be appointed Surgeon General of the United States. She is deeply committed to raising our Nation's attention to social determinants of health and equity, she is a compelling doctor-citizen, and she has the intelligence and energy to elevate our country's attention to and action on an intergenerational, comprehensive health agenda that honors simultaneously quality, access, and national well-being.
Her expertise and capacity to connect to large and diverse audiences nationally and internationally would grasp enthusiasms for public health across a spectrum including individual citizens to widely-respected international health organizations. She has the ability to speak comfortably and wisely with people of incredibly diverse experiences about matters of health, safety and welfare. She understands health challenges that currently threaten our security and future as well as opportunities to make internal and external changes to not only illuminate and improve current conditions but actually transform existing structural policies and practices for better outcomes for the many, not just a few.
She would bring to the position of Surgeon General advanced medical expertise, a stellar research portfolio, a tested and true ability to communicate with many publics (without missing a beat she can move from interpreting and explaining highly scientific studies to “storytelling” that deepens and informs understanding of values interwoven with decision-making and choices determining health outcomes), and in the spirit of our new administration her passionate desire to initiate a public conversation about social determinants of health and social determinants of equity. She combines personal and professional qualities that are fully aligned with this position.
From both my readings and opportunities to hear people committed to our Nation’s Health, I have never heard another as compelling as Dr. Camara Jones. I know many others have sent her name forward. I want mine added to the list advancing her nomination for this position.
I would like to recommend that Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PHD, Research Director of Health and Equity in the Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, be appointed Surgeon General of the United States. She is deeply committed to raising our Nation's attention to social determinants of health and equity, she is a compelling doctor-citizen, and she has the intelligence and energy to elevate our country's attention to and action on an intergenerational, comprehensive health agenda that honors simultaneously quality, access, and national well-being.
Her expertise and capacity to connect to large and diverse audiences nationally and internationally would grasp enthusiasms for public health across a spectrum including individual citizens to widely-respected international health organizations. She has the ability to speak comfortably and wisely with people of incredibly diverse experiences about matters of health, safety and welfare. She understands health challenges that currently threaten our security and future as well as opportunities to make internal and external changes to not only illuminate and improve current conditions but actually transform existing structural policies and practices for better outcomes for the many, not just a few.
She would bring to the position of Surgeon General advanced medical expertise, a stellar research portfolio, a tested and true ability to communicate with many publics (without missing a beat she can move from interpreting and explaining highly scientific studies to “storytelling” that deepens and informs understanding of values interwoven with decision-making and choices determining health outcomes), and in the spirit of our new administration her passionate desire to initiate a public conversation about social determinants of health and social determinants of equity. She combines personal and professional qualities that are fully aligned with this position.
From both my readings and opportunities to hear people committed to our Nation’s Health, I have never heard another as compelling as Dr. Camara Jones. I know many others have sent her name forward. I want mine added to the list advancing her nomination for this position.
posted by Margaret Holt | 4:54 PM
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I fully agree!
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