Gail E. Henderson, PhD, is Professor of Social Medicine in the School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her teaching and research interests include global health inequality and research ethics. Dr. Henderson is a medical sociologist with training in public health and has extensive experience with interdisciplinary research and analysis. She served as Senior Editor of The Social Medicine Reader (Duke University Press, 1997, second edition, 2003) an interdisciplinary medical school text that includes material on bioethics, social and cultural factors in health and illness and the organization of medical care. Her research and publications on health care in China have spanned more than two decades. In 1984 she co-authored The Chinese Hospital (Yale University Press) and in 1989 was co-investigator on the NICHD-funded China Health and Nutrition Survey. More recently, Dr. Henderson served as a consultant to the China CDC National Center for AIDS Prevention and Control, organizing a series of ethics and IRB training workshops. At UNC, she is Director of the International Core of the UNC Center for AIDS Research and co-investigator on an NIH Fogarty Bioethics Training Program (“Bioethics, Social Justice, and Global Health”) for Francophone Africa. In 1999, Henderson co-edited a research ethics casebook, Beyond Regulations: Ethics in Human Subjects Research. In 2007, she was awarded a 5 year NIH R24 grant, “Partnership for Social Science Research on HIV in China,” collaborating with 9 UNC investigators and Chinese researchers from People’s University, the Nanjing National STD Control Center, and the China CDC. She is PI of an NHGRI ELSI grant that examines how benefit in gene transfer research is discussed and understood by those who conduct and participate in such trials; co-investigator on an ELSI grant that surveys participants in a case-control study of colorectal cancer in blacks and whites in North Carolina, to determine their perceptions of genetic research and the collection of genetic data and whether these perceptions vary by disease status or race/ethnicity.