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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 Dean and Distinguished
Professor of the Duke University School of Nursing and Vice Chancellor for Nursing Affairs, Duke
University. He is also the founding director of the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH) at
Duke University. Dr. Guilamo-Ramos is a nurse practitioner dually licensed in primary care (ANP-BC) and
psychiatric-mental health nursing (PMHNP-BC).

Widely regarded as an expert, scholar and leader in adolescent and young adult sexual and reproductive health
promotion and the social determinants of health (SDOH), Dr. Guilamo-Ramos’ research has been funded
externally for two decades by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and various other funding
agencies. His research focuses on the role of families in promoting adolescent and young adult health among
Latinos and in other underserved communities, with a special focus on mitigating the mechanisms through
which SDOH shape health outcomes and inequities. Most recently, Dr. Guilamo-Ramos has applied SDOH
mitigation principles to the design of a nurse-led and family-based approach to increase COVID-19 testing,
vaccine uptake, and overall household capacity for COVID-19 mitigation in medically and
socioeconomically underserved communities, an application currently being evaluated as part of the National
Institutes of Health’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics in Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) initiative.

For over 20 years, Dr. Guilamo-Ramos has been the principal investigator of numerous NIH, CDC, HRSA, and
other federally funded research grants, and has implemented large-scale randomized controlled trials in
community and clinic settings. He has published extensively in leading scientific journals, including: 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 The New York Times, NPR, and The Washington Post.

Dr. Guilamo-Ramos currently serves as a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA),
the HHS Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents, and the CDC/HRSA Advisory
Committee on HIV, Viral Hepatitis and STD Prevention and Treatment. He also serves as chair of the Power
to Decide Board of Directors, as vice chair of the Latino Commission on AIDS Board of Directors, and on the
Board of the HIV Medicine Association.

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