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Valeria A. Ramdin, PhD, MS, APRN-BC, CNE, FPCC, is the Director of Global Health Affairs-Nursing and Clinical Professor at Northeastern University, Boston, MA. Her four-decade career spans a national and an international context for both training and practice. Dr. Ramdin’s journey includes foundational nursing education in Barbados as a registered nurse, advanced degrees; Bachelor of Science (BSN), Master of Science (MS) with concentration as a Primary Care Adult Nurse Practitioner, and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Nursing from Northeastern University, Boston MA., and is complemented by leadership earning a Women’s Leadership Development certificate from Saἴd Business School, Oxford University England.

Her outstanding impact is a culmination of decades of leadership excellence in academia, clinical practice, mentorship, research science, diversity, and inclusion initiatives. She has a proven history of practice excellence in providing and promoting patient-centered care, evidenced by being invited back to lead the medical arm of the GloGood Foundation (GGF) mission in Eleuthera. She helped develop this practice beyond what started as a dental mission into an interprofessional mission, growing and scaling up the nursing services.

She serves on two Boards of Directors, the longest of which began in 2016 when she was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless population (BHCHP). In this role, she helps to provide fiduciary, personnel, and administrative oversight for this multimillion-dollar establishment that provides quality care for the vulnerable populations served by this 501(c)3 organization.

As a Research Scientist, she focuses on healthy aging and person-centered care, and she is a member of the African Caribbean Cancer Consortium (AC3), where she serves on the colorectal cancer working group, concentrating on early detection, increasing access, and treatment decision-making. This prestigious Consortium advances cancer research in the USA, Caribbean, and Africa, specifically targeting underrepresented people of African descent. AC3 earned the 2023 American Association for Cancer Research Team Science Award with Dr. Camille Ragin as the team leader.

Dr. Ramdin has mentored hundreds of nursing and career students. She is a long-standing mentor with the Harvard University Biomedical Science Careers Program and most recently began mentoring academic faculty in the Leadership and Public Policy Mentoring Program of the Association of Black Nursing Faculty (ABNF).

She has received many awards for mentorship, leadership, and excellence in nursing/healthcare, including the  Bernay’s Fleishman Award for excellence in nursing care from the Mount Auburn Hospital Cambridge MA, Excellence in Teaching- Award from the  Massachusetts Association of Colleges of Nursing, the 2024 Excellence in Leadership Award from The New England Regional Black Nurses Association and in 2023 she was inducted as a Fellow for Person Centered Care (FPCC) by Planetree International Inc.

Her experience in nursing practice and academic nursing affords her optimize healthcare and mitigate the inequitable burden of disease.