Cameron Webb, MD, JD

White House COVID-19 Response Team and Univ. of Virginia

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Cameron Webb, MD, JD, serves as senior policy advisor for equity on the White House COVID-19 Response Team. Previously, Webb was an assistant professor of medicine and public health sciences, and director of health policy and equity at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

A general internist, he has worked clinically in the university’s COVID-19 unit since the beginning of the pandemic. Additionally, he is the founding director of UVA’s Health Equity, Law and Policy Research (HELPR) Laboratory and is a core faculty member at the university’s Equity Center, an initiative for the redress of inequity through community-engaged scholarship. Prior to joining the faculty at UVA, Webb was a 2016 White House Fellow in the Obama-Biden administration’s Office of Cabinet Affairs, where he served on the My Brother’s Keeper task force and the White House Healthcare Team. Webb received his MD from Wake Forest School of Medicine and his JD from Loyola University of Chicago School of Law.