Page 4 - Johns Hopkins School of Nursing - December 5, 2024 - Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health

Vincent Guilamo-Ramos is one of contemporary
nursing’s most respected thought leaders, change agents and
scientists. As a tenured professor and executive director of The
Institute for Policy Solutions at the Johns Hopkins School of
Nursing and the founder and director of the Center for Latino
Adolescent and Family Health (CLAFH), he works across

disciplines to design, evaluate and promote nurse-led models of
integrated clinical and social care that address our nation’s most pressing health challenges
and opportunities for improvement.

Dr. Guilamo-Ramos’ research and advocacy have a primary focus on the elimination of
health and health care inequities among marginalized communities, most notably among
Latino youth and their families. His research has been federally funded for more than 20
consecutive years with grants from the NIH, CDC, HRSA and private philanthropic
organizations. He and CLAFH colleagues developed the CLAFH Framework for Harmful

Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Mitigation, an innovative roadmap for educators,
practitioners, researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders designing programs to
mitigate harmful SDOH. The CLAFH framework is being used to inform the development
and evaluation of SDOH interventions in both community and clinical settings using
explanatory randomized control trials. He and his team are conducting several
community-based research studies at CLAFH including Project Confianza, a CDC-funded
project examining the role of medical mistrust in HIV prevention and treatment uptake
among Latino men who have sex with men in five cities across the contiguous U.S. and

Puerto Rico. Dr. Guilamo-Ramos also co-directs the Nursing Science Incubator for SDOH
Solutions (N-SISS), a NINR-funded capacity-building program that trains nurse scientists
and scientists in aligned fields to apply the CLAFH Framework and rigorous SDOH-research
methods to the development and dissemination of interventions that eliminate health and
healthcare inequities.

Dr. Guilamo-Ramos has published more than 100 manuscripts in leading peer-reviewed
scientific and health journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature
Medicine, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, JAMA Pediatrics, Pediatrics, and the American