Ann Kurth, PhD, CNM, RN Associate Professor Associate Professor, Global Health, Adjunct Associate Professor, Epidemiology Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Systems Box 357266 University of Washington Seattle, WA 98195-7266 Email Address: akurth@u.washington.edu

Research: Dr. Kurth studies sexually transmitted infections (STI) including HIV. She is interested specifically in developing patient and clinician tools to improve STI/HIV prevention and disease self-management. Her current work focuses on patient-centered informatics and behavioral epidemiology, in studies conducted in the US and internationally. These studies evaluate information and communication technology-based, as well as nurse-delivered, approaches to HIV/STI risk reduction.

Teaching: Dr. Kurth mentors undergraduate and graduate students (theses and scholarly projects). She teaches Infectious Disease/Infection Control Nursing (NURS504) and Sociobehavioral and Prevention Research Methods (NMETH515/EPI 549), and directs the multidisciplinary UW Graduate Certificate Program in HIV and STIs. As faculty for the Seattle STD Prevention Training Center, she lectures on sexual history-taking and risk reduction counseling to clinicians throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Service: Dr. Kurth has served as president of the national Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, and locally serves on the medical advisory board of Lifelong AIDS Alliance. She is a Coordinator for the UW Center for AIDS Research Sociobehavioral and Prevention Research Core, which supports research in 1) HIV prevention interventions, 2) treatment adherence for individuals living with HIV, and 3) transmission dynamics modeling.

Community of Science Profile

Graduate Certificate in HIV & STIs Center for AIDS Research

Current Projects

• A Kenya Free of AIDS: Harnessing interdisciplinary science for HIV prevention (Key Personnel)
• Antiretroviral Therapy and HIV-1 Infectivity in Women (Key Personnel)
• Improving Medication Adherence for Patients with Low Functional Health Literacy: An Intervention with Talking Pill Bottles (Key Personnel)
• STD/AIDS Research Training Grant   (Mentor)
• Undergraduate Infectious Disease Curriculum Enhancements (Key Personnel)
• University of Washington Center for AIDS Research   (Key Personnel)

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