C. Nicholas Cuneo, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and affiliate faculty with the Johns Hopkins Center for Public Health and Human Rights and Johns Hopkins Center for Humanitarian Health. He practices clinically as a hospitalist for adults and children at Johns Hopkins Hospital in addition to serving as a primary care physician for immigrant survivors of torture at Esperanza Center in Baltimore, MD. At Johns Hopkins, Dr. Cuneo serves as Co-Director of the Global and Refugee Health Leadership Track within the School of Medicine.
Dr. Cuneo is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the HEAL Refugee Health & Asylum Collaborative, which is dedicated to expanding access to responsive health care and supportive services for immigrant survivors of torture and trauma seeking refuge in the U.S. He is a leader within the fields of refugee health and asylum medicine, serving on the Physicians for Human Rights Medical Expert Taskforce and as a co-lead of the Asylum Medicine Training Initiative (AMTI), a national educational platform for health and human rights practitioners co-sponsored by Physicians for Human Rights.
As an asylum evaluator for the PHR Asylum Network, Dr. Cuneo has conducted evaluations for individuals in both community and detained settings. Dr. Cuneo’s humanitarian work has been recognized nationally by organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, Human Trafficking Legal Center, and Society for Hospital Medicine and was featured in a short documentary by the New England Journal of Medicine. His academic work and personal writing has appeared in a number of national peer-reviewed journals and lay-press outlets, including JAMA, BMJ, Lancet, NEJM, Health Affairs, Academic Medicine, LA Times, WBUR Cognoscenti, and STAT News.
Dr. Cuneo holds a BS from Duke University, an MD from Johns Hopkins University, and an MPH from Harvard University. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Harvard Combined Program at Brigham & Women’s Hospital/Boston Children’s Hospital, where he was Global Health Equity Chief Resident. Dr. Cuneo served as a Fulbright Research Fellow in South Africa from 2009-2010 and as a Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellow in Haiti from 2013-2014.