Welcome from the Dean

It is a pleasure to welcome you to the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing’s website.  You are about to embark on a virtual tour of a school whose most important mission is the improvement of nursing care through our key values of scholarship, leadership and social responsibility.

Our school of nursing is a very special place – we enjoy a long tradition as one of the nation’s leading schools of nursing, as you will learn from our brief history. We are uniquely well poised to move nursing forward with our state-of-the-art building, exciting educational offerings – including our doctoral program, an impressive research program and superb clinical sites and resources. Interwoven throughout all of this is our outstanding faculty.

Our setting offers tremendous advantages and opportunities for those who wish to move nursing forward into this next century. We are an integral part of  Emory University, a top 20 university, recently named one of the "New Ivies" by Newsweek.  We also enjoy the very rich experience of being a part of the Woodruff Health Sciences Center.  In short, we are uniquely positioned to engage in productive interdisciplinary collaboration and partnerships for both students and our faculty. We have ongoing collaborative educational programs with the Rollins School of Public Health, School of Medicine, and Candler School of Theology that provide unique career opportunities.  And, both our faculty research and doctoral programs involve strong linkages across the campus.

Our school enjoys being a part of the Atlanta community, with its rich and diverse history and character. Our location enables us to collaborate with organizations such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Cancer Society, CARE, the Carter Center, the City of Atlanta and many others. Our faculty and students are committed to community partnerships and are actively engaged in service-based learning and practice.

The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing is a vibrant and exciting place to learn, to teach, to discover, to practice and to work.  It is also a place where caring, scholarship, leadership and social responsibility serve as the foundation for all that we do. 

We are pleased to introduce you to our School and invite you to get to know us better.  We welcome your questions, comments, ideas and feedback – let us know what you are thinking!

Marla E. Salmon, ScD, RN, FAAN
Dean and Professor, Nell Hodgson Woodruff 
School of Nursing
Director, Lillian Carter Center for International Nursing
Professor, Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
1520 Clifton Road
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