Owain David Williams

Dr Owain David Williams is an expert on global health, particularly in relation to access to medicines, health and political economy and global health governance. He is a British academic and Research Fellow in the Centre for Health and International Relations (CHAIR), Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University. After obtaining his BA (Hons) and MA from the University of East Anglia, Dr Williams joined the Department of International Politics in 1994 as a PhD student after working for a range of NGOs on TRIPS, biological resources, agriculture and development. His thesis was entitled 'The Knowledge Structure: TRIPS and Biotechnology'. Dr Williams helped to establish the Centre for Health and International Relations (CHAIR) in 2003 and is currently part of a four year European Research Council-funded research project entitled 'Transformation of Global Health Governance: Competing World Views and Crises'.^[1]

Publications

Books

Simon Rushton and Owain David Williams (eds.), Partnerships and Foundations in Global Health Governance, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.^[2]
Adrian Kay and Owain David Williams (eds.), Global Health Governance: Crisis, Institutions and Political Economy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. ^[3]

Book chapters

Owain David Williams and Simon Rushton, 'The end of one era and the start of another: Partnerships, foundations and the shifting political economy of global health', in Rushton and Williams (eds.), Partnerships and Foundations in Global Health Governance, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Owain David Williams and Simon Rushton, 'Private actors in global health governance', in Rushton and Williams (eds.), Partnerships and Foundations in Global Health Governance, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Owain David Williams and Adrian Kay, 'The International Political Economy of Global Health Governance', in Williams and Kay (eds.), Global Health Governance: Crisis, Institutions and Political Economy, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

References

^ "Synopsis: The Transformation of Global Health Governance: Competing World Views and Crises". http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/GHG-Synopsis.pdf. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
^ "Partnerships and Foundations in Global Public Health". Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=382747. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
^ "Global Health Governance: Crisis, Institutions and Political Economy". Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=295403. Retrieved 1 June 2011.

External links

Aberystwyth University staff profile

Persondata
Name	Williams, Owain David
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death