Honoring Ann Kurth, PhD, RN, MPH

Ann Kurth, PhD, RN, MPH, is president of the New York Academy of Medicine, an organization dedicated to research for health equity. She is the first epidemiologist and nurse appointed to lead the 177-year-old organization, continuing her professional commitment to eliminating barriers that prevent people from living healthy lives, including climate change and pandemics. Dr. Kurth served as dean of the Yale School of Nursing for seven years and co-founded the Yale Institute for Global Health. Her tenure included efforts to shape university-level strategies around diversity, equity and inclusion; a ‘planetary solutions’ science priority; and campus sustainability. Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, UNAIDS, CDC, HRSA, and others, and she is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Nursing and the American College of Nurse-Midwives. Dr. Kurth has published widely-including one of the first books on HIV in women-and she currently co-chairs the National Academy of Medicine Board on Global Health.