Beatrice J. Krauss, Ph.D. is Professor of Urban Public Health at Hunter College, City University of New York and Executive Director of the Hunter College Center for Community and Urban Health. She is a member of the HIV Center's Global Community Core.

Dr. Krauss has been involved with over 30 privately-, city-, state-, nationally- or internationally-funded HIV-related research projects Sshe has published and presented extensively on HIV prevention and adjustment to HIV in highly affected communities, as well as on methodological issues in field research and on the dissemination of research-supported interventions. Her NIMH-funded Parent/Preadolescent Training for HIV prevention project has been disseminated to India and Mexico by collaborating investigators as well as implemented in the US, informing curricula in Miami, in the NYC public school system and in hospitals and agencies. Recommendations, derived from her work, were incorporated in the UN Secretary General’s targets and goals for youth and HIV in 2008.

In 1998 she received the Kurt Lewin Award for her contribution in the area of HIV/AIDS, and in 2007, the Benjamin B. Wolman Award for her contributions to psychology from the Division of Social Issues and Cross-Cultural Psychology of the New York State Psychological Association in 2006 she became a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and its Health Psychology Division and in 2009 she received the Hunter College Presidential Award for Excellence in Applied Scholarship.

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