Veronica Miranda, PhD is a medical anthropologist whose research examines how individual and community health are shaped by state institutions, structures of inequality, and cultural systems of knowledge. Her work focuses on the political economy of Latina and indigenous women’s reproductive health. Dr. Miranda's primary research is a long-term ethnographic project that has documented changing childbirth practices and access to health resources among Maya women in rural Quintana Roo, Mexico. She is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Santa Clara University.