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In 2019, our opportunity to end HIV, once and for all, has never been closer. “Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America,” a presidential initiative, was announced in the January 2019 State of the Union address

And so nurses are making their voices heard on health policy, on violence, on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and about the very future of health care as a profession and as a business.“I’m not just a crass business guy,” says Kenneth Dion, PhD, MSN, MBA, a nurse entrepreneur, inventor, scholar, and a 30-year veteran of the health care industry. The HEED Award is the only national honor that recognizes individual health institutions showing outstanding achievement in making diversity a top priority.“Diversity is an underlying current that drives our innovation and success, and inclusion is what provides a sense of true community at our school.”“Diversity is an underlying current that drives our innovation and success, and inclusion is what provides a sense of true community at our school,” Davidson insists. It is why Gloria Ramsey, JD, RN, FAAN, was recently appointed to serve as inaugural associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion (or DEI: “because we need another nursing acronym,” she jokes).At JHSON, diversity, equity, and inclusion are embedded into the strategic plan and overall mission. Professor Phyllis Sharps, PhD, RN, FAAN, earned Modern Healthcare’s Diversity in Nursing Award, was named 2019 Black Nurse of the Year by the Black Nurses Association of the Greater Washington, DC Area, and was a 2018 finalist for the JHU Provost Prize for Faculty Excellence in Diversity.

” Kirby feels fortunate to be part of the Johns Hopkins Nursing community as the winner of a Gurtler Scholarship, awarded to a returned Peace Corps volunteer. You don’t join the Peace Corps to go someplace and help, and then the first time it gets a little too difficult, you leave. After getting his feet wet translating Hispanic patients’ histories at free clinics in the U.S. and leading hospice care classes at an AIDS clinic in Costa Rica, Kirby landed with the Peace Corps in Liberia only a few steps ahead of Ebola, which would soon explode on Africa’s Atlantic coast. You don’t join the Peace Corps to go someplace and help, and then the first time it gets a little too difficult, you leave.

Campus Operations Manager Sabrina Scarborough, way underplaying the enormity of a continuous, all-hands-on-a-different-deck office shuffle to clear the way for each new phase of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Music—rock music (especially Zeppelin), a little Janis Joplin, a dash of Adele—has been her love since she came wailing out of the womb in Kings Mountain, NC. For the Army vet, onetime acting director of lesbian services at Whitman-Walker HIV clinic in Washington, DC, and 20-year doer of everything at the Johns Hopkins School of Education, it feels like just another day in the right place at the right time. I’ve met students at Accepted Students Day who ended up coming out to my gig that night.