Ann Williams

Williams received a diploma in nursing from Chicago's Illinois Masonic Medical Center School of Nursing after earning a degree in history from Roosevelt University, also in Chicago. She received her Master of Science in Nursing from YSN and master’s and doctoral degrees in Education from Columbia University. She was awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Nurse Scholars Postdoctoral Fellowship for two years at the University of California, San Francisco where she focused on epidemiology and HIV/AIDS.For over 3 decades Williams has worked as a nurse practitioner caring for persons with AIDS in New Haven, San Francisco, and abroad. Her program of research grows directly from that clinical work. She designed and conducted some of the earliest studies of AIDS among drug users. Her work tested interventions to decrease HIV transmission, improve gynecologic care of women living with HIV, and increase patient adherence to antiretroviral medication. She served for many years on the Board of Trustees of Yale-China Association and from 2008-2009 as Interim Executive Director of that organization. She has been Guest Professor Nursing at Xiangya School of Nursing, in Hunan Province, China, since 2004. Williams is the Nurse Consultant for Harvard AIDS Initiative Vietnam where she has led the development of a national cohort of HIV/AIDS nurse educators.Williams’s awards include Research Article of the Year from the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (1999 and 2005); the Ruth Steinkraus Cohen Memorial Award for Outstanding Women of Connecticut (2002), the Ruth B. Freeman Award for Distinguished Career in Public Health Nursing (American Public Health Association, 2002), Best Book of 1998 from The Nurse Practitioner (for HIV Nursing and Symptom Management), and the Women’s Health Research Award from the National Center for Excellence in Women’s Health (1998). She is a fellow in the American Academy of Nurses.Although Williams retired from Yale in 2010 after 3 decades and currently serves as Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship at UCLA School of Nursing, she maintains her Yale connections, including ongoing collaborations with colleagues at Yale School of Medicine, Yale School of Nursing, and Yale-China Association.

Clinical practice

AIDS Care Program, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Member, Medical Staff, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Nurse Practitioner, Primary Care Staff, AIDS Care Program, Yale New Haven Hospital