Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University (JHU) was founded in 1873 by Johns Hopkins, a Quaker entrepreneur, alongside a hospital in Baltimore. “The indigent sick of this city and its environs, without regard to sex, age, or color, who may require surgical or medical treatment…who are stricken down by any casualty, shall be received into the hospital,” Hopkins wrote about his vision for the hospital to his trustees in 1873. 

Since its early beginnings, JHU has become a world-renowned research university and recognized leader in the fields of medicine, nursing, and public health. The mission of JHU is “to educate its students and cultivate their capacity for lifelong learning, to foster independent and original research, and to bring the benefits of discovery to the world.” Today Johns Hopkins University conducts research, patient care, training, service, and education at more than 1,300 sites in more than 154 countries. 

JHU serves as HEAL’s fiscal and programmatic home base and provides essential supportive services such as language interpretation for many of our clients. Students and trainees from a wide range of programs and schools across JHU rotate through HEAL and contribute to HEAL’s work through volunteering in operations, participating in clinical care, engaging in service learning opportunities, and contributing to related scholarship.