Alejandro Vásquez-Hernández is the Clinical Research Coordinator at the Homeless Health Service, St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney. He contributes to the design, coordination, and implementation of research projects aimed at improving health outcomes for people experiencing homelessness, ensuring that evidence informs service delivery and system reform.
With more than 17 years of experience working alongside vulnerable communities in Australia and internationally, Alejandro’s work focuses on access to healthcare, oral health, climate-related health risks, and the structural determinants of disadvantage. He supports research activities from protocol development and ethics approvals through to data collection, analysis, and knowledge translation, maintaining strong governance processes while embedding meaningful lived experience participation across projects.
Alejandro is part of the team leading the co-design and implementation of the Mobile Cooling Hub, a climate adaptation initiative developed in partnership with people with lived experience of homelessness. The project addresses the escalating health risks associated with extreme heat by integrating rapid response, service coordination, and participatory design to develop a practical and scalable model of care. This work reflects his commitment to equity-driven research that translates evidence into action, strengthening climate resilience and health system responsiveness for people experiencing homelessness.