Corazon C. Muñoz (Class of 2020)

Corazon C. Muñoz is an author, academic scholar, consultant, national and international speaker, Fulbright Scholar, diversity trainer, health advocate and community worker. Her clinical specialty is psychiatric mental health and transcultural nursing, with expertise in cultural competence, education and teaching nursing.

Through her engaging, genuine approach to transcultural nursing and cultural competency, Muñoz has influenced health care providers nationally and internationally. Through numerous presentations, articles and her book, Transcultural Communication in Nursing, Muñoz has had a lasting influence on what it means to be culturally sensitive and culturally competent when providing health care. It is through her sensitivity, enthusiasm, warmth and scholarship that nurses in central Ohio and beyond will better care for others with cultural appreciation and sensitivity.

Muñoz has been a long standing commissioner and officer of the Ohio Asian American Health Coalition. By the governor’s appointment, she has served on the Ohio Commission on Minority Health and the Asian American Pacific Islander Advisory Council. As president of the Asian Festival Corporation, Muñoz has coordinated health screenings and health education for the Asian community. She was the founder of the Philippine Nurses Association of Indiana and the Philippine Nurses Association of Central Ohio. She has served as vice president for culture on the Philippine American Society of Central Ohio and also served as a board member of this organization.

Muñoz has received numerous accolades and awards as an outstanding nurse educator and community leader. She has received three Fulbright scholarships for the mentoring of faculty abroad. She is a certified trainer for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) standards and a national trainer for Mental Health First Aid, certified by the National Behavioral Health Council.

Muñoz is professor emerita and adjunct professor at Capital University. Additionally, she has held teaching positions at Ohio Wesleyan University, Mt. Carmel College of Nursing and McConnell Clark School of Nursing at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital (New York City, NY).

Muñoz received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1969 at St. Paul’s University, Manila, Philippines. She completed her master’s in teaching nursing at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, New York City, with post master’s courses in psychiatric mental health nursing, and her doctoral degree in counselor education with a minor in nursing at The Ohio State University.