Mohan J. Dutta is professor of communication and director of the Center on Poverty and Health Inequities (COPHI) at Purdue University, where he teaches and conducts research in international health communication, critical cultural theory, poverty in health care, activism in globalization politics, indigenous cosmologies of health, subaltern studies and dialogue, and public policy and social change. Spanning over one hundred articles and six books, his research examines marginalization in contemporary health care and the ways in which participatory, culture-centered processes and strategies are organized in marginalized contexts.