MSN, RN , Doctoral (Current)
Brandon Brown, MSN, RN, is a second-year Doctor of Nursing Practice student in the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner track at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. His work focuses on expanding access to mental health care and ensuring underserved communities are represented in, and benefit from, emerging psychiatric treatments.
A Howard University graduate in Communications with a minor in Psychology, Brown began his career in media and production, where he discovered the power of storytelling to explore the mind. He earned his MSN from Johns Hopkins as a second-degree student, serving on the Black Student Nurses Association board and founding Black Minds on Black Health, an initiative addressing mental health disparities.
Brown’s nursing career started in child and adolescent psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Hospital and expanded to medical and surgical units at the University of Maryland Medical Center during the COVID-19 pandemic. He then served as a Clinical Research Nurse with Sheppard Pratt and COMPASS Pathways, coordinating psychedelic-assisted therapy trials for treatment-resistant depression and bipolar II disorder while earning a Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research from the California Institute of Integral Studies. These experiences showed him the importance of including marginalized voices in psychedelic research and building awareness of these treatments among the communities that could benefit most.
He later taught as a Clinical Instructor at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing before beginning multistate travel nursing, where he witnessed gaps in access to quality, evidence-based care across urban and rural communities. That experience drives his interest in holistic and integrative psychiatry and psychedelic-assisted therapy, and his goal as a future nurse practitioner: making these often costly treatments accessible to underserved populations. Today, he merges these threads through media, creating educational content on mental health, consciousness, and the human experience.