Cameron Davis Clarke

Originally from Jersey City, New Jersey, Cameron is a third-year medical student at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, and a policy fellow at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, where he conducts health policy and equity research.

A Howard University graduate in biology and community health education, Cameron also holds master’s degrees in public policy and social interventions from the University of Oxford. Cameron has worked in health education and health policy at the Baltimore City Health Department, the DC Superintendent of Education, Children’s National Hospital, the National Institutes of Health, and the United States House and Senate, among others.

At Columbia, Cameron serves on the University Senate, as an Equity and Justice Fellow at the medical school, coordinates Columbia’s chapters of White Coats for Black Lives, Primary Care Progress, and the Family Medicine Interest Group, and is a student clinician with the Columbia-Harlem Homeless Medical Partnership. In addition to his intra-institutional work, Cameron serves on the DEI Commission of the New York State Association of Family Physicians, and organizes with New York City Against Segregated Healthcare – a citywide student-led coalition opposing segregation in the healthcare system.

Prior to Howard University, Cameron attended McNair Academic High School in Jersey City, where he accumulated 45 college credits through Advanced Placement classes, enough for three semesters of college.