Bonnie Taub, MPH, MA, Ph.D., a medical anthropologist, is Co-Chair of the Latin American Studies MA Program, Associate Director of the Latin American Institute and on the faculty in the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Taub conducts research on indigenous peoples and mestizos in Latin America and among ethnic groups in the United States, and teaches courses about culture, politics and health, community and family health, human rights, traditional medicine/shamanism and Western medicine. She consults and conducts anthropological training and development of cultural assessments for clinicians and non-profits working worldwide.