Judyth L. Twigg is an Associate Professor at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her work focuses on issues of health, demographic change, and health care reform in Russia. She has been a consultant to the World Bank, the U.S. government, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and several other nongovernmental and research organizations. She has testified as an expert witness before the U.S. Congress and has been a member of several Congressional advisory groups on Russian affairs. She was a member of the 2005 Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on US-Russia Relations, and one of twelve recipients of the 2005 State Council on Higher Education in Virginia’s Distinguished Faculty Award. She is the Faculty Liaison for VCU’s ongoing partnership with St. Petersburg State University in Russia. Twigg’s most recent book, HIV/AIDS in Russia and Eurasia, a two-volume edited set, is being published by Palgrave/Macmillan in December 2006.