Steven P. Kurtz

Dr. Steven Kurtz was awarded his PhD in Sociology by Florida International University in 1999. He is Professor and Director of the Center for Applied Research on Substance Use and Health Disparities (ARSH) at Nova Southeastern University. The center’s mission is the production, dissemination, and utilization of scientific knowledge in the areas of substance abuse, health risk behaviors, and health disparities among vulnerable populations. Areas of special interest include the etiology, patterns and consequences, and prevention and treatment of drug and alcohol abuse; the epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, and the development and testing of new approaches to intervention.