http://www.william-heyward.com/ Dr. William Hayward was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1950. He attended both the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health and the Medical College of Georgia, and soon after began working for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the CDC, and moved to Alaska. While he worked for the CDC, he studied hepatitis B, pneumococcal disease, botulism, and Haemophilus influenzae in infants and children. His degree in Epidemiology made him the perfect person to study HIV and AIDS. He began his studying in Alaska, and was, in fact, the first person to study the rate of AIDS and HIV in Alaska. en-us