Vincent Guilamo-Ramos is one of contemporary nursing’s most respected thought leaders, change agents and scientists. As a tenured professor and executive director of The Institute for Policy Solutions at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the founder and director of the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH), he works across disciplines to design, evaluate and promote nurse-led models of integrated clinical and social care that address our nation’s most pressing health challenges and opportunities for improvement.
Dr. Guilamo-Ramos’ research and advocacy have a primary focus on the elimination of health and health care inequities among marginalized communities, most notably among Latino youth and their families. His research has been federally funded for more than 20 consecutive years with grants from the NIH, CDC, HRSA and private philanthropic organizations. He and CLAFH colleagues developed the CLAFH Framework for Harmful Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Mitigation, an innovative roadmap for educators, practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders designing programs to mitigate harmful SDOH. The CLAFH framework is being used to inform the development and evaluation of SDOH interventions in both community and clinical settings using explanatory randomized control trials. He and his team are conducting several community-based research studies at CLAFH including Project Confianza, a CDC-funded project examining the role of medical mistrust in HIV prevention and treatment uptake among Latino men who have sex with men in five cities across the contiguous U.S. and Puerto Rico. Dr. Guilamo-Ramos also co-directs the Nursing Science Incubator for SDOH Solutions (N-SISS), a NINR-funded capacity-building program that trains nurse scientists and scientists in aligned fields to apply the CLAFH Framework and rigorous SDOH-research methods to the development and dissemination of interventions that eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
Dr. Guilamo-Ramos has published more than 100 manuscripts in leading peer-reviewed scientific and health journals including Nature Medicine, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, JAMA Pediatrics, Pediatrics, and the American Journal of Public Health. Additionally, his work has been featured by major media outlets including, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, Newsweek, and The Guardian.
Before joining the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Dr. Guilamo-Ramos was Dean of the Duke University School of Nursing and Vice Chancellor for Nursing Affairs, where he realigned the school’s mission and strategic plan to advance health equity and social justice. Prior to his appointment at Duke, he held numerous tenured faculty and administrative appointments at both Columbia University and New York University (NYU). At NYU, he served as Associate Vice Provost of Mentoring and Outreach Programs, where he developed a university-wide mentoring infrastructure for the advancement of early career faculty with a focus on underrepresented faculty.
Dr. Guilamo-Ramos currently serves on several boards including UnidosUS, the nation’s largest Latino civil rights organization. He previously co-chaired the HHS Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and served on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) Committee on Unequal Treatment Revisited: The Current State of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare. Dr. Guilamo-Ramos is a fellow of both the American Academy of Nursing and the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, an Aspen Health Innovators Fellow, and a Presidential Leadership Scholar.
JHU Center Affiliation:
Center for Equity in Child and Youth Health and Wellbeing
Institute for Policy Solutions at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing