Martha N. Hill, PhD, RN, FAAN, served as Dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing from 2001 to 2014 and has been a faculty member since the school's establishment in 1983. She earned a Diploma from the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing in 1964, a BSN from Johns Hopkins University in 1966, a Certificate in the Adult Nurse Practitioner Program from Johns Hopkins University School of Health Services in 1974, an MSN from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing in 1977, and a PhD in Behavioral Sciences from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1986. She completed postdoctoral fellowship training as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Nurse Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania from 1986 to 1988. Her career trajectory includes Instructor at the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing from 1966 to 1973, Nurse Specialist in Hypertension and Research Associate at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania from 1977 to 1980, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing from 1985 to 1989, Associate Professor from 1989 to 1997, Director of the Center for Nursing Research from 1994 to 2002, and joint appointments in the Department of Medicine, School of Medicine since 1990 and the Bloomberg School of Public Health since 1995. Hill holds titles as Professor of Nursing, Medicine, and Public Health and Dean Emerita.

Hill's research focuses on preventing and treating hypertension and its complications, particularly among young urban African American men, the effectiveness of nurse-run clinics, and community-based participatory research to improve outcomes for underserved populations through multi-professional health care integration. Key projects include Comprehensive HBP Care for Young Urban Black Men, Barriers to HBP Care and Control in Black South Africans, and Research Training in Health Disparities in Underserved Populations. She has published extensively, including Medication non-adherence as a critical factor in the management of presumed resistant hypertension (EuroIntervention, 2014), Antihypertensive Medication Nonadherence in Black Men (Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 2013), An Ecological Perspective on Medication Adherence (Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2012), and Community Outreach and Cardiovascular Health (COACH) Trial (2011). Major honors include Living Legend designation by the American Academy of Nursing (2016), first non-physician President of the American Heart Association (1997-1998), member of the National Academy of Medicine (1998), Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame (2010), and multiple honorary doctorates from institutions such as Flinders University (2010) and University of Technology Sydney (2012). She has served on the National Academy of Medicine health sciences policy board, numerous American Heart Association committees, and editorial boards including Journal of Clinical Hypertension and Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing.