C. Nicholas Cuneo, MD

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C. Nicholas Cuneo, M.D., M.P.H. is an assistant professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Cuneo is a graduate of the Harvard Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Boston Children’s Hospital Medicine-Pediatric Residency and served as chief resident for the Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity at Brigham & Women’s Hospital. He earned his B.S. in biology and anthropology at Duke University, his M.D. at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his M.P.H. in clinical effectiveness at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He works as an academic hospitalist for children and adults at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Children's Center. He is the founding Executive Director of the HEAL Refugee Health & Asylum Collaborative, which provides trauma-informed, responsive health care and supportive services to immigrant survivors of torture and trauma, including Baltimore’s first comprehensive pro bono asylum clinic and the Restorative and Integrative Survivor Empowerment (RISE) Program for survivors of torture, for which Dr. Cuneo serves as Medical Director.  Dr. Cuneo is a co-director of the Global and Refugee Health Leadership Track at JHUSOM and has extensive global health research and program management experience, particularly in Haiti, where he was a Harvard Medical School Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellow, and South Africa, where he was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Public Health. In addition to his roles at JHUSOM, he is affiliated with the Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health and the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He further serves nationally as Co-Lead of the Asylum Medicine Training Initiative and on the Physicians for Human Rights Medical Expert Task Force.