A Healing System

Jahmal Miller describes his childhood doctor as a hero. Dr. Vernon Walton was one of the first African American pediatricians in the Sacramento area, and he was Miller’s inspiration to go into the health care field. 

“I wanted to be Dr. Walton when I grew up,” Miller says.

Miller, a south Sacramento native, chose to pursue the administration side of health care instead of medicine, and earned a master’s degree in health administration at USC. He was appointed by former Gov. Jerry Brown in 2013 to serve as deputy director of the California Department of Public Health Office of Health Equity and now is CommonSpirit Health’s vice president of equity and inclusion.

Miller talked with Comstock’s about CommonSpirit’s response to the pandemic, systemic racism and health care inequity in the Capital Region.

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