Ann Kurth, PhD RN MPH

Ann Kurth, Ph.D., R.N., M.P.H., F.A.A.N., an expert on global health, is dean and Linda Koch Lorimer Professor at the Yale School of Nursing. As a clinically trained epidemiologist, she focuses her research on how to improve the prevention, detection, and care of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections; to promote reproductive health; and to strengthen health systems globally by using information and communication technologies, among other approaches, to further the establishment of health care and workforce training programs. Her work in the USA and abroad has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNAIDS, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the U.S. Health and Resources Administration, among others. She has written more than 140 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and scholarly monographs, and edited one of the first books published on women and HIV, Until the Cure (1993).