C. Nicholas Cuneo, MD, MPH
Hospital Medicine
Highlights
Johns Hopkins Affiliations:
- Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Faculty
About C. Nicholas Cuneo
Professional Titles
- Medical Director, HEAL Refugee Health and Asylum Collaborative
Primary Academic Title
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Background
C. Nicholas Cuneo, M.D., M.P.H. is an assistant professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine with a joint appointment at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he is affiliated with the Center for Public Health and Human Rights and the Center for Humanitarian Health.
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 provides pediatric care at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He is the founding Medical Director of the HEAL Refugee Health and Asylum Collaborative, which provides trauma-informed, affirming care and supportive services to immigrant survivors of torture and trauma, including Baltimore’s first comprehensive pro bono asylum clinic.
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.
Centers and Institutes
Additional Academic Titles
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Research Interests
Gender-based Violence, Health in Conflict, Food Security, Malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Political Determinants of Health, Sexual and Gender Minorities, Trauma
Selected Publications
Cuneo CN, Huselton KE, Praschan NC, Saadi A, Gartland MG. (2021) What Counts As 'Safe?': Exposure To Trauma And Violence Among Asylum Seekers From The Northern Triangle. Health Aff (Millwood) 40(7):1135-1144.
Cuneo CN, Janeway H. (2020) From Icebox to Tinderbox: A View from the Southern Border. N Engl J Med 383(13):e81.
Allan-Blitz LT, Valtis Y, Sundberg M, Sharma N, Petersen E, Cuneo CN. (2022) Implementation and first experiences with a multimodal mentorship curriculum for medicine-paediatrics residents. Ann Med 54(1):1313-1319.
Bernhardt LJ, Lin S, Swegman C, Sellke R, Vu A, Solomon BS, Cuneo CN. (2019) The Refugee Health Partnership: An Experiential Medical Student Curriculum in Refugee Health. Academic Medicine 94(4): 544-549.
Pancheshnikov A, Boddu R, Rubenstein LS, Cuneo CN. (2022) Unstable gynaecological patient with an ankle monitor: implications of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Alternatives to Detention programme in the healthcare setting. BMJ Case Rep 28;15(6):e246515
Honors
- Chief Resident, Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity and Internal Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, 7/1/19
- Alpha Omega Alpha, 3/27/15
- Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School, 7/1/13
- Front Line Scholar, TEDMED, 4/16/13
- Presidential Grant, Arnold P. Gold Foundation, 1/1/13
- U.S. Schweitzer Fellow, The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, 5/5/12
- Fulbright Research Grant, U.S. Department of State Institute of International Education, 3/30/09
- Phi Beta Kappa, Duke University - Beta of North Carolina, 4/16/07
Professional Activities
Physicians for Human Rights Asylum Network, Pro Bono Forensic Examiner
Additional Training
- MPH, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2020)
Expertise
Education
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Residency, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, 2020Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health
Graduate School, MPH, 2020Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Medical Education, 2015Board Certifications
Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine, 2020Pediatrics
American Board of Pediatrics, 2020Insurance
- Aetna
- CareFirst
- Cigna
- First Health
- Geisinger Health Plan
- HealthSmart/Accel
- Humana
- Johns Hopkins Health Plans
- MultiPlan
- Pennsylvania's Preferred Health Networks (PPHN)
- Point Comfort Underwriters
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- UnitedHealthcare
- Veteran Affairs Community Care Network (Optum-VACCN)