IPS ED DELIVERS COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT UCSF SON

Professor Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, RN, FAAN, executive director of the Institute for Policy Solutions (IPS) at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, provided the keynote commencement address at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Nursing (UCSF-SON) graduation ceremony recently.

“I’m deeply honored to have spoken to the UCSF SON community and graduates at this moment in history when our leadership as nurses is so vital, to protect and promote the overall health and wellbeing of our nation,” Dr. Guilamo-Ramos said. “It was a privilege to be with the next generation of nurses as they mark this important milestone in their lives.”

Along with leading IPS, Guilamo-Ramos is the Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing and founding Director of the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health. A noted champion of making the invisible visible — from eliminating health inequities as a sustainable fix for the U.S. broken health system to offering evidence-based prevention and care solutions to the Latino HIV crisis — Guilamo-Ramos is a transformative leader in the development and evaluation of scalable clinical and social care models that eliminate health inequities and address harmful social determinants of health. He’s also an influencer within the area of sexual and reproductive health. Published extensively in leading scientific journals, his scholarship has led to coverage in media such as CNN, The New York Times, NPR, and The Washington Post. First and foremost, he is a nurse practitioner who’s committed to optimal health for all.