Background
C. Nicholas Cuneo, M.D., M.P.H. is an assistant professor and academic med/peds hospitalist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with a joint appointment at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Public Health and Human Rights. He works in the Pediatric Combined ED and Inpatient Unit and Newborn Nursery at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center and in the Johns Hopkins Hospitalist Program at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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.
Dr. Cuneo has extensive global health research and program management experience, particularly in Haiti, where he was a Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellow, and South Africa, where he was a Fulbright Research Fellow in Public Health. He speaks Haitian Creole and Spanish and has a career interest in the political determinants of health, with focus on immigrant and refugee health. He serves as a member of the Physicians for Human Rights Asylum Network.
In his free time, Dr. Cuneo enjoys hiking, kayaking, traveling, writing, cooking, and spending time with his family.