Karin Johnson, DrPH, RN

Office: Devilbiss Hall – Office 238
Telephone: 410-543-6411
Fax: 410-543-6411
Email: kejohnson@salisbury.edu

The Department of Nursing has undergraduate programs for traditional, 2nd degree, and RN students. The Graduate Program offers a Master of Science degree to prepare Clinical Nurse Educators, Family Nurse Practitioners and Health Care Leaders.  There is also a Post Masters Certification option for Family Nurse Practitioner preparation.

Positions Held

• Assistant, Associate and Full Professor, Department of Nursing at Salisbury University
• Director, Grants and Sponsored Research, Salisbury University
• Assistant to the President, Salisbury University
• Director, Graduate and Second Degree Programs, Department of Nursing
• Society for Research and Child Development/American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellowship at the National Institute for Drug Abuse
• Health Scientist Administrator/Contractor:  National Institute for Drug Abuse
• Numerous regional and international consultancies

Honors, Memberships

• Sigma Theta Tau – Lambda Eta Chapter
• Phi Kappa Phi
• American Public Health Association
• Global Health Council
• Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health Alumni Association

Institutions Attended

• 1985 - The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, DrPH
• 1966 - University of Maryland at Baltimore - Master of Science - Nursing
• 1963 - University of Maryland at Baltimore, Bachelor of Science Degree - Nursing
• 1977 - University of Maryland at Baltimore, PNP Certificate

Dissertation: The Relationship Between Nutritional Status at Birth and Preschool Development in Rural Guatemalan Children

Areas of Interest

• Global health and development issues
• Drugs and the Internet
• Leadership and administration
• Epigenetics