Akile Gürsoy is the founding chair of the Anthroplogy Department of Yeditepe University in ?stanbul. Prior to her current role, she was a rector of a newly founded university in ?stanbul, worked with UNICEF, and as served visiting professor and Rockefeller Research Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. In addition, Dr. Gürsoy was founding president of the Turkish Association of Social Sciences in Health. She was awarded the Distinct Success Award of Marmara University and is a member of the executive committee of the European Society for Population Economics, the secretary general of the International Forum for Social Sciences and Health, and the national delegate for Turkey at the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Since 2009, she is also a member of the Standing Committee of the Social Sciences of the European Science Foundation (ESF). Dr. Gürsoy's research and publications are mostly on health anthropology, population issues, migration, and ideology in science. She represented ESF at the strategic conference on "Evidence-Based Prevention of Bullying and Youth Violence - European Innovations and Experiences", which took place in the Møller Centre of Churchill College, Cambridge. Dr. Gürsoy hold a B.A. from Durham University, UK, and a Ph.D. from Hacettepe University, Turkey. She is a Fellow of Session 320, Beyond Child Survival: Promoting the Well-being of Young Children (1994), and Session 203, Development, Communication and Social Change (1981).