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Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, MPH, LCSW, RN, ANP-BC, PMHNP-BC, FAAN
Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, MPH, LCSW, RN, ANP-BC, PMHNP-BC, FAAN 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.
Natalia Barolín, BA, BSN, RN is the Senior Health Policy Advisor in the Office of the Dean at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHSON). Working closely with Institute Director, Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, and the JHSON Dean, Sarah Szanton, Natalia is the conduit between the scholarly work and leadership at the JHSON and the Institute for Policy Solutions. She brings together her second career as a public health and oncology Registered Nurse with nearly 20 years of experience in strategic communications and media advocacy in health care and policy. Natalia began her nursing career in a federally qualified health center serving a primarily Latino immigrant population in Washington, DC and later worked in oncology care navigation with the Lombardi Cancer Center at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital before joining the CMS Innovation Center in 2019. Prior to becoming an RN, she worked as a project director in strategic and policy communications providing support and technical assistance to a range of government and nonprofit clients including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Institute of Medicine, the FDA Tobacco Regulatory Science Fellowship, and the Office of Training and Diversity in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Natalia received her nursing degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and has a bachelor’s degree in Latin American and Women’s Studies from the University of Richmond. Natalia’s family is originally from Uruguay and she speaks Spanish fluently. Natalia’s experience helping her family fulfill their potential in the U.S. and navigate the U.S. health system, shaped her passion for social and health justice.
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