Ann Elizabeth Kurth FAAN is the dean and

Linda Koch Lorimer Linda Koch Lorimer was Vice President for Global and Strategic Initiatives at Yale University, where she was responsible for an array of administrative departments. She developed and oversees Yale's Office of International Affairs and created Yal ...

Professor at

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. She is a fellow of the

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and a member of the

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. She is an expert in global health and studies

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Early life and education

Kurth completed her bachelor's degree at

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where she specialised in African and Developmental Studies and completed in 1984. She completed a

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Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

, graduating in 1987. She joined

where she earned a

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in 1990. She was certified a midwife in 1990. She joined the

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for her doctoral studies, gaining a PhD in epidemiology in 1998. In 1993 she published her doctoral research in a book - ''Until the Cure: Caring for Women with HIV'' - one of the first textbooks that described HIV in women. The book considers the ethical issues, including the reproductive rights of women with HIV, and legal conflicts. She worked as a

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postdoctoral fellow working in the Centre for Aids in

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between 2000 and 2003.

Career

In 2003 Kurth was appointed Assistant Professor at the

School of Nursing. In 2008 she joined

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as a Professor. She was made Executive Director of the

in 2011. She was the founder and executive director of NYUCN Global, which researches and implements programs to improve the health of families in the United States. She was awarded a $4.1 million

grant to support a five-year proposal ''Test and Linkage to Care Kenya'', which looked at

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s in sub-Saharan Africa. This proposal has continued for several years, studying the prevalence of

in different communities. They are looking to pilot a SMART intervention to link

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women youth for treatment, including oral fluid self-testing, staff-aided testing and standard provider testing to determine a population's preference for HIV testing. They use reminder SMS messages and financial incentives to link to care. She has consulted for the

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UNAIDS The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS) (, ONUSIDA) is the main advocate for accelerated, comprehensive and coordinated global action on the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The mission of UNAIDS is to lead, strengthen and support an e ...

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and the

. She was made a fellow of the

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in 2013. She was a member of the

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Ebola Task Force between 2014 and 2015. She was appointed Dean of the

in Jan 2016. She was the inaugural Linda Koch Lorimer Professor of Nursing. She is a member of the

. She was selected as ''Nurse of the Week'' by Daily Nurse in 2016. She voiced concern on possible repeal of the

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, and joined a coalition of deans to write a letter to leaders in D.C. She has reviewed the

planetary health Planetary health refers to "the health of human civilization and the state of the natural systems on which it depends". In 2015, the Rockefeller Foundation and ''The Lancet'' launched the concept as the Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on ...

framework by monitoring how population displacement and disease patterns impact health. They developed CARE, ''Computer Assisted Risk Education'', an automated counselling and planning tool to improve health outcomes. In 2018 she was made the Chair of the

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Awards and honours

2017 Fellow of the

Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering The Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering is a non-profit institution patterned after the National Academy of Sciences to identify and study issues and technological advancements that are or should be of concern to the state of Connecticut ...

2015 Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research Ada Sue Hinshaw Research Award 2013

Sigma Theta Tau International The Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing () is the second-largest nursing organization in the world with approximately 135,000 active members. While often referred to by nurses as simply Sigma, its official name is "Sigma Theta ...

International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame award 2013

‘90 Nurses for 90 Years’ Award 2011 Fellow of the

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2011

Vernice Ferguson Faculty Scholar Award 2010 Fellow of the

2008

Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award 2007

Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems Faculty Award 1990 New Haven Foundation Ivy Award

Personal life

Kurth is married to Bart Kahr, a Professor at

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. They have one son, Aden Kurth Kahr.

References

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