Dr. Ann Kurt
h is Dean at the Yale University School of Nursing. She is adjunct professor of nursing and public health at New York University (NYU). At NYU, Dr. Kurth was associate dean for research at the College of Global Public Health, professor of medicine in the Department of Population Health, and executive director of NYU College of Nursing’s Global program.
As an epidemiologist and certified nurse-midwife, Dr. Kurth focuses on HIV, sexual and reproductive health prevention, screening and care, as well as on global health system strengthening, using information and communication technologies among other approaches for health intervention implementation and workforce training.
Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIAID, NIDA, NIMH, NICHD), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNAIDS, CDC, HRSA, and others, for studies conducted in the US and internationally. Dr. Kurth has consulted for the NIH, Gates Foundation, World Health Organization, and CDC. She received the FNINR Ada Sue Hinshaw Research Award in 2015.
Dr. Kurth has published more than 145 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and scholarly monographs, including editing one of the first books published on women and HIV (Until the Cure, Yale University Press 1993).
Dr. Kurth is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine), and a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing and of the New York Academy of Medicine. She serves as a member of the 2014-2018 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Dr. Kurth is incoming Vice Chair of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health.
