Rate My Professor Andrà Nogueira

André Nogueira, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor on the tenure track at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, a position he has held since 2025. His academic background includes a Ph.D. from the IIT Institute of Design in Chicago (2019), a Master of Science in Urban Planning with honor and distinction from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie in São Paulo, Brazil (2015), a Master of Arts in Geography, Cities, and Architecture (2012), and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and Urban Design with honor and distinction (2011) from the same institution. He also completed exchange programs in Architecture and Urban Design at Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico (2010) and Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia (2008). Nogueira's research focuses on systems design, intersecting design with public health, nursing, urban planning, and economics to drive equitable, scalable transformations in health systems, neighborhood care, and sustainability. His work addresses complex challenges through cross-sector partnerships, influencing policy in the US, Brazil, and India.

Prior roles include Senior Research Scientist at Brown University School of Public Health (2023-2024), Research Scientist and Co-Founder/Deputy Director of the Design Laboratory at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (2021-2023 and 2019-2020), and Founding Manager of Action Labs at IIT Institute of Design (2017-2019). Current appointments at Johns Hopkins encompass Director of Systems Design and Research for Neighborhood Nursing, Affiliated Faculty at the Gupta-Klinsky India Institute and SNF Agora Institute, Core Faculty at the Business of Health Initiative, and Principal Faculty at the Center for Equity in Aging. Major awards include the 40 Under 40 Public Health Catalyst Award (Boston Congress of Public Health, 2022), Notable Health and Wellness from Core 77 Design Awards (2023), and Innovation By Design from Fast Company (2021). He has led grants as PI or Co-PI, such as Built To Change from The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation ($406,200, 2025-2027), Neighborhood Nursing from Stavros Niarchos Foundation ($1,000,000 total, 2024-2027), and SMART from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ($1,500,000, 2021-2022). Key publications are 'Now What? Neighborhood Nursing's Answer to the US Health Care Paradox of Spending More but Getting Less' (Milbank Quarterly, 2025), '“I make myself get busy”: Resilience and social connection among low-income older adults living in subsidized housing' (Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2024), 'Interaction, Integration, Interconnectivity, and Iteration: A New Model for Designing Infrastructure Change' (She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, 2022), and 'Expanding perceptions of the circular economy through design: Eight capitals as innovation lenses' (Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2019).