Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones is a physician, epidemiologist, and civil rights activist whose work focuses on the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the nation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Jones has drawn attention to why racism rather than race is a risk … Read MoreCamara Phyllis Jones (1955- )
Twenty-four-year-old Olubukola Abiona is one of the front line researchers in the battle against COVID-19. Since 2017, Olubukola Abiona has been working as a post-baccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award (IRTA) scientist at the National Institutes of Health Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland to develop … Read MoreOlubukola Abiona (1995- )
On May 27, 2020 Evelyn Carmon Nicol, a pioneer in microbiology and immunology, died from complications of COVID-19, the coronavirus. Born to Daniel and Margarite Carmon on June 2, 1930, Nicol came of age in Little Rock, Kentucky. As a youth, she attended high school … Read MoreEvelyn Carmon Nicol (1930-2020)
Lynika Strozier was a researcher, scientist and instructor. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama on August 28, 1984. At six months old, her mother brought her to Chicago, Illinois, and at six years old, Strozier went to live with her grandmother, Sharon Wright. By the … Read MoreLynika Sharlice Strozier (1984-2020)
Mary Logan Reddick was a neuroembryologist, and the first female biology instructor at Morehouse College. Reddick was born on December 31, 1914, in Atlanta, Georgia. She graduated from Laboratory High School when she was fourteen and then entered Spelman College in 1929, at the age … Read MoreMary Logan Reddick (1914-1966)
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is the current Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the first non-physician to hold the position. Ghebreyesus was born in 1965 in Asmara, Eritrea, East Africa, to Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Melashu Weldegabir. He attended the University of Asmara … Read MoreTedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (1965- )
Angella Ferguson is best known as a medical researcher. Her pioneering research focused on the development of the sickle cell disease among African American infants. Eventually, she developed a blood test to detect sickle cell at birth and this test became standard for forty U.S. … Read MoreAngella Dorothea Ferguson (1925- )
A prolific scholar and passionate educator, Dr. Charles Henry Turner made significant contributions to the fields of zoology, entomology, and psychology. Over a thirty-year career, he published widely on not only scientific topics, but also civil rights and education, authoring over seventy articles in total. … Read MoreCharles Henry Turner (1867-1923)
John Kermit Haynes, biologist and academic administrator, is most famous for discovering methods for the detection and treatment of sickle cell anemia. Haynes was born on October 30, 1943 in Monroe, Louisiana. His father, John Kermit Haynes Sr. was a local business owner and a high school principal in … Read MoreJohn K. Haynes (1943- )
Jewel Plumber Cobb, a cell biologist and cancer researcher, was born in Chicago, Illinois on January 17, 1924 to Frank V. Plummer, a physician, and Carriebel (Cole) Plummer, a physical education teacher. An only child, Jewel Plummer began reading her father’s scientific journals to supplement … Read MoreJewel Plummer Cobb (1924- )
