At a time when the nation’s health and the future of higher education feel tested, JHSON holds steady, anticipating what tomorrow will demand and preparing leaders ready to meet it.
Focus Forward is a storytelling campaign that captures how the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing (JHSON) community leads through challenge—with focus, foresight, change, and impact. It reflects a simple but powerful truth: Leadership in nursing is defined by vision, innovation, and purpose.
Across research labs, classrooms, hospitals, and communities, our faculty, students, and alumni are driving progress that redefines what health can be. They are clinicians and scientists, educators and advocates, each bringing a 360-degree view to the complex realities of modern health care. Whether developing new models of care, influencing policy, or advancing research that crosses disciplines and borders, they share one belief, that when nurses lead, health moves forward.
Through Focus Forward, JHSON shares stories that show how vision becomes innovation and how innovation becomes measurable change toward a healthier, more equitable world.
You’ll see how we are preparing nurse leaders fluent in policy and systems thinking through groundbreaking educational models that elevate nursing’s influence on the future of health. You’ll explore programs that unite experts across disciplines to design evidence-based solutions addressing the social and structural determinants of health.
Over the next several pages, and more fully through the new website nursing.jhu.edu/focus-forward, you will learn how Hopkins researchers are helping to build sustainable global health systems led by the communities they serve, and how innovative care models are reshaping international standards. You’ll see unwavering commitment, like students who persist in challenging times and scientists who advance inclusion and accessibility in health research worldwide.
At JHSON, we are not waiting for the future. We are actively shaping it. Our community understands that the health challenges of today demand leaders who think critically, act compassionately, and move decisively. Focus Forward captures that mindset, highlighting how our people navigate uncertainty with resolve, transforming complexity into opportunity and vision into results.
Share Your Story
We want to see Focus Forward through your eyes. Share a photo or short video that shows how you’re living one of the four pillars—whether you’re learning something new, mentoring a classmate, innovating in a lab, or volunteering in the community.
Learn more about the campaign and watch and read more stories of focus and foresight at the campaign website, nursing.jhu.edu/focus-forward.