Kate Muessig, PhD

Kate Muessig, PhD (she/her) is the inaugural recipient of the Laura and Alan Levine Endowed Professorship in Innovation Applications in Nursing, in the College of Nursing at Florida State University (FSU), and the founding Co-Director of the Institute on Digital Health and Innovation at FSU.

Dr. Muessig received her PhD at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and postdoctoral training at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research develops interventions combining digital health tools, behavior-change strategies, and health systems navigation to decrease HIV transmission and improve health care for people living with HIV. She has served as Principal Investigator of multiple NIH research studies, including a six-city pilot trial supporting HIV medication adherence, a national randomized controlled trial testing stigma reduction to improve HIV outcomes, and two implementation studies to increase the availability of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in rural health clinics and community-based settings. She co-leads the Statistical and Data Management Center of the NIH Adolescent Medicine Trials Network for HIV interventions which supports a portfolio of national research studies addressing the HIV prevention and care continuum.

Dr. Muessig’s methodological focus is on the use of qualitative and mixed-methods research to support the development, implementation and evaluation of multi-component interventions.
 

RESEARCH INTERESTS
HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, eHealth and mHealth interventions, digital health, Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), medication adherence, LGBTQ health

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