Project Coordinator
212-992-5580
camilo.parra@nyu.edu
Camilo Parra is a Project Coordinator for New York City Treats Tobacco. He is interested in systemic change to support healthier lives free of tobacco-related morbidity and mortality. Camilo fosters relationships with medical and behavioral health organizations to implement health system improvements which will expand access to evidence-based tobacco dependence treatment. He also collaborates with different community and policy advocacy partners to further tobacco control efforts across New York City and New York State.
Prior to joining the NYCTT, Camilo worked with NYC Health + Hospitals in various capacities. He was part of the first cohort of contact tracers deployed by NYC Health + Hospitals, Test and Trace Corps, during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. Working with both Spanish and English-speaking populations, he connected thousands of New York residents to essential social services while monitoring the spread of the virus. He then transitioned to a new capacity at NYC Health + Hospitals / Bellevue, Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic, as a Community Health Worker. In his role, Camilo worked within an interdisciplinary team of psychiatrists, social workers, pharmacists, and case managers to ensure that clients' needs were met by addressing their social determinants of health.
In tandem with his work at NYC Health + Hospitals, Camilo worked as a research assistant at CUNY’s Institute for Implementation Science for Population Health on a community-based participatory research project evaluating various NYC nonprofits' distribution of COVID-19 related materials and information through a health literacy lens. Through conducting community member interviews and using validated measurement tools for health literacy, he has worked on submitting various QI reports for the Department of Health.
Camilo holds a MS in Health Communications for Social Change from CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, and a BA in Global Public Health & Anthropology from New York University. He is currently a student in the Masters of Public Administration program with a specialization in Health Administration at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.