Fernando Mena-Carrasco serves as the President of the Johns Hopkins Nurses' Alumni Board and is currently a first-year PhD student at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. He is also a clinical instructor for pre-licensure MSN students completing their population health and psychiatric-mental health clinical rotations. Until 2023, Mr. Mena-Crrasco served as Chief of the Center for HIV, STI Integration and Capacity at the Maryland Department of Health (MDH), where he directed public programs funded by SAMHSA, CDC, and HRSA. At MDH, He provided strategic oversight of public health programs focused on workforce development as well as behavioral health and infectious disease service delivery.
Prior to joining MDH, Mr. Mena-Carrasco worked at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where he led a team of community health workers who assisted program participants with system navigation, and who mitigated their social vulnerabilities, including unstable housing, poverty, and violence. He has also served as an appointed member of the Greater Baltimore HIV Health Services Planning Council since 2017. He has led clinical and policy initiatives in maternal and immigrant health as well as infectious diseases both domestically and internationally.
Mr. Mena-Carrasco received a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Iowa, a Master of Social Work from the Washington University in St. Louis, a Bachelor of Science, and a Master of Science in Nursing from the Johns Hopkins University (Clinical Nurse Specialist in Adult Health). He is a licensed Registered Nurse (RN) in the State of Maryland.