Dr. Bruce Agins is an infectious disease physician and professor at the University of California San Francisco in the Institute for Global Health Sciences, Division of epidemiology, and former medical director of the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute. Since 2002, he has directed HEALTHQUAL, a capacity-building initiative supporting development of sustainable quality management programs in Ministries of Health. He received his M.D. from Case Western Reserve University and his B.A. in anthropology from Haverford College.