2024 Excellence in Humanitarian Services
The Excellence in Humanitarian Services awardee is the founding medical director of HEAL Refugee Health & Asylum Collaborative in Baltimore, Maryland.
C. Nicholas Cuneo, MD, MPH, is board-certified in internal medicine and pediatrics with a background in refugee health, asylum medicine, and global health education. As an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, he works clinically as an attending med-peds hospitalist at Johns Hopkins Hospital and as a primary care physician to immigrant survivors of torture at Esperanza Center.
He is the founding medical director of HEAL Refugee Health & Asylum Collaborative in Baltimore, Maryland, an organization that expands access to medicolegal, medical, and mental health services to forced migrants seeking refuge in the United States. He also serves as co-lead of the national Asylum Medicine Training Initiative, which defines and disseminates best practices in the clinical evaluation of survivors of persecution seeking humanitarian protection.
Dr. Cuneo has lived and practiced abroad in diverse settings such as Bangladesh, Haiti, India, Lebanon, Mexico, Rwanda, Zambia, and South Africa. His work with asylum seekers in Baltimore and at the U.S.-Mexico border was the subject of a recent NEJM documentary. He holds a BS from Duke University, an MD from Johns Hopkins, and an MPH from Harvard. He completed his residency at the Harvard Combined Residency in Medicine and Pediatrics at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, where he served as global health equity chief resident.
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