Institute for Policy Solutions at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

The Institute for Policy Solutions at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Improving Health Through Nursing Innovation and Leadership

Everyone deserves the opportunity for a healthy life. Right now, that isn’t reality. We want to change that. 

The Institute for Policy Solutions works with health policy leaders, innovators and researchers to redesign the U.S. health system. With the goal of shifting policy and practice to more preventive, value-based and whole-person care, the Institute elevates, develops and implements evidence-based, actionable nurse-led solutions. A focus on eliminating racist policies and structures entrenched in the country’s health care establishment and other systems underpins the Institute’s work.

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New Resources for Ending the Latino HIV Crisis

We cannot end the U.S. HIV epidemic until we end the U.S. Latino HIV Crisis. The Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH) and the Institute for Policy Solutions have taken this year’s World AIDS Day theme—“Collective Action: Sustain and Accelerate HIV Progress”—to heart. Access information and tools you can use to end the Latino HIV Crisis.

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ENDING HEALTH AND HEALTHCARE INEQUITIES

Find out how the Institute for Policy Solutions is working within the healthcare system and society at large to amplify the power of nursing leadership and nurse-led care to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.

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Ending Unequal Treatment: Strategies to Achieve Equitable Health Care and Optimal Health for All

Meet the Executive Director

Vincent Guilamo-Ramos Named Director of New Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing

Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, MPH, LCSW, RN, ANP-BC, PMHNP-BC, FAAN, one of contemporary nursing’s most respected thought leaders, change agents and scientists, is the recently-appointed director of The Institute for Policy Solutions at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.

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our initiatives

ENDING HEALTH INEQUITIES

Nurses are key change agents for ending the racial and ethnic health and health care inequities that are eroding population health and bankrupting our health care system.

NEIGHBORHOOD NURSING

With Neighborhood Nursing, we can bypass many structural barriers by bringing care directly to people where they live, work, play and pray.

Policy Honors Program

Encourages students to explore the ways that health care providers can engage with policymakers in any area of nursing they pursue.

health policy outlook series

Panel conversations offer policymakers, faculty, students, advocates and experts around the world with insights from a mix of Johns Hopkins School of Nursing experts and guests

Johns Hopkins Congressional Briefing Series

The Johns Hopkins Congressional Briefing Series allows policymakers, their staff, and members of the public to gain up-to-the-minute insights and analysis from Johns Hopkins experts.

Lavinia Dock Lecture Series

Lavinia Dock was a provocative voice for nursing education, social reform, disaster relief, and the civil rights of women.

Johns hopkins Health Policy Forum

The Johns Hopkins Health Policy Forum is a quarterly series featuring conversations with leaders who address the most pressing challenges in the development or implementation of health policy.

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