Abating Violence against African Women for Improved Access to Health Care

William W. Rankin is President Emeritus of the Global AIDS Interfaith Alliance (GAIA), a non-profit non-governmental organization delivering HIV prevention and care interventions in developing countries.

He holds the Doctor of Philosophy degree in ethics from Duke University and his masters degrees are from Episcopal Divinity School and Duke University’s Sanford Institute of Policy Sciences and Public Affairs.

 
He has authored three books, over forty articles in refereed journals, and several book chapters.  His published work in health care has appeared in Ethics in Science and Medicine, Asian Forum, Linacre Quarterly, Healthspan, British Medical Journal, Global AIDSLink, The Singapore Nurse Journal, the U.S. State Department’s Global Issues, The Public Library of Science (Medicine) and The Journal of Pediatric Nursing. He was a guest editor of the January 2002 British Medical Journal special issue on global HIV/AIDS.

He was a scholar-in-residence at the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio, Italy, a Visiting Scientist at the Swiss Tropical Institute of the University of Basel, and he is presently a Visiting Researcher at the Brocher Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland.