Vincent Guilamo-Ramos is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Solutions and Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. He is founding Director of the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH). Dr. Guilamo-Ramos is a nurse practitioner dually licensed in adult health (ANP-BC) and psychiatric-mental health nursing (PMHNP-BC).
Widely regarded as an expert, scholar, and leader in social determinants of health (SDOH) and developing, evaluating, and translating family-based adolescent and young adult sexual and reproductive health interventions, Dr. Guilamo-Ramos’ research has been funded externally for two decades by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and various federal agencies. His research focuses on the role of families in promoting adolescent and young adult health among Latinos and in additional underserved communities, with a special focus on preventing HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections, and improving care outcomes for youth receiving HIV prevention and care services. He has published extensively in leading scientific journals, including: The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, The Lancet HIV, Clinical Infectious Diseases, JAMA Pediatrics, Pediatrics, and the American Journal of Public Health. Dr. Guilamo-Ramos’ research and scholarship has led to coverage in well-known media sources such as CNN, The New York Times, NPR, and The Washington Post.
Prior to his appointment as Executive Director in January 2024, Dr. Guilamo-Ramos was a tenured professor at Duke University School of Nursing and New York University (NYU), where he held faculty appointments in nursing, public health, and social work. He was a tenured professor at Columbia University prior to joining NYU. Dr. Guilamo-Ramos has held numerous administrative academic appointments, including: Dean of the Duke University School of Nursing; Vice Chancellor for Nursing Affairs, Duke University Health System; Associate Vice Provost of the Mentoring and Outreach Program at NYU; Director of the NYU Silver School of Social Work Doctoral Program; and Director of the Pilot Projects & Mentoring Core at the NYU Center for Drug Use and HIV Research.
Dr. Guilamo-Ramos served as co-chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA), and was a member of the ad hoc NASEM Committee on Unequal Treatment Revisited: The Current State of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare. Currently, Dr. Guilamo-Ramos serves on the Board of UnidosUS, the largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the nation.
JHU Center Affiliation:
Center for Equity in Child and Youth Health and Wellbeing
Institute for Policy Solutions at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing