UMSON Nursing Policy Academy students and faculty invite you to a virtual conversation with Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD, MSN, MPH, MS, MSW, BS, RN, ANP-BC, LCSW, PMHNP-BC, FAAN, executive director of the Institute for Policy Solutions and the Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.
Advancing Health Equity: Strategies to Eliminate Health Inequities
Tuesday, June 23
6 p.m.
No RSVP needed
About Our Speaker
Guilamo-Ramos is the founding director of the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health. He is a nurse practitioner licensed in both adult health and psychiatric-mental health nursing.
Widely regarded as an expert, scholar, and leader in social determinants of health and in developing, evaluating, and translating family-based adolescent and young adult sexual and reproductive health interventions, he has conducted research for more than two decades that has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and other private and philanthropic organizations.
He is a leader in addressing the Latino HIV Cascading Disaster, with research focused on the role of families in promoting adolescent and young adult health among Latinos and in other 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 British Medical Journal, The Lancet, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, The Lancet HIV, Clinical Infectious Diseases, JAMA Pediatrics, Pediatrics, and the American Journal of Public Health. 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. In addition, he is a contributing writer for MedPage today.
Guilamo-Ramos served as co-chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS and was a member of the ad hoc National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Unequal Treatment Revisited: The Current State of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare. Currently, Guilamo-Ramos serves on the Board of UnidosUS, the largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the nation.