Ayse Guler-Das, PhD, RN

Assistant Professor 

Dr. Guler-Das is an Assistant Professor in the College of Nursing. She has several years of clinical experience in high-risk pregnancy, labor & delivery, and gynecologic-oncology departments. She is a nurse scientist dedicated to preventing maternal mortality and improving women’s health through prevention and intervention research. Her prior work has focused on investigating individual, relational, community, and societal-level risk factors associated with the help-seeking process for intimate partner violence in medically underserved and vulnerable populations.

Her program of research focuses on developing, implementing, and evaluating interventions that may prevent intimate partner violence and improve maternal health outcomes addressing social drivers of health in the delivery of reproductive healthcare. She is a co-investigator on several federally funded projects focused on developing innovative intervention programs to improve maternal health outcomes and prevent or reduce the impact of intimate partner violence during perinatal period. She is currently an associate in the Building of Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health program and a nurse scholar in the Nurse Program for Advancing Training in Health and Social Determinants funded by the NIH. She is a member of the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses, American Nurses Association, Kentucky Nurses Association, Midwest Nursing Research Society, Nursing Network on Violence Against Women International, and Sigma Theta Tau International Scholarly Nursing Society.