Olagoke Akintola is currently a senior lecturer in health promotion in the School of Psychology, University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa. He serves as a research consultant to the Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD) and also as a member of the training and opportunities committee of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research. He is also a project associate with the African Health Research Forum, an umbrella organization for health researchers in Africa based at the Kenya Methodist University, Meru, Kenya. Akintola has worked in the field of HIV/AIDS prevention and care for 10 years. His research interests include gender and informal/unpaid care for people living with HIV/AIDS; general impact of HIV/AIDS on communities and households/families and on the private/public sector; gender and health risk behavior; as well as health research for development. He has published papers and reports on sexual and reproductive health, HIV/AIDS caregiving, and community responses to HIV/AIDS. Recent research topics include informal caregiving for PLWHAs in Uganda and South Africa, community impact and responses to HIV/AIDS in semirural communities in KwaZulu Natal, impact of HIV/AIDS on the forestry sector in South Africa, and the role of volunteering in HIV/AIDS responses. Akintola received a B.S. (with honors) degree and an M.B.A. in marketing and finance from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria; an MPhil. in public health, specializing in health promotion and education from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria; and a Ph.D. from the University of KwaZulu Natal.