Camille Johnson

Camille Johnson (MD) is a Fellow in our Leadership Training Academy Class of 2026 and specializes in Complex Family Planning. She shared the following reflections on her work, advocacy, and what brings her joy.

What are your clinical or research interests?

My clinical and research interests include promoting reproductive justice through obstetrics and gynecology, intersections between complex family planning and obstetric care, hospital-based abortion care, using family planning to improve black maternal mortality, healthcare inequity, and community-based approaches to improving abortion care and access.

What current policy issue motivates you to be an advocate?

The H.R.1 “Big Beautiful Bill” Act clause on restricting Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood and similar organizations that provide high-volume essential reproductive health services including abortion. This unfairly restricts care for some of the most vulnerable people in our country.

What local justice-centered organization do you wish we knew about?

The Chicago Abortion Fund (CAF). They are absolutely essential in providing support at multiple levels for people seeking abortion care in Chicago and other places in the Midwest. This is especially important in our current climate where so many patients have to travel to access abortion care.

What is bringing you joy these days?

Spending time with friends and family, doing my own nails and communities of nail polish enthusiasts, Broadway in Chicago and other shows around town.

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