Anita Hannig is an anthropologist who studies medicine, health, and illness from a cultural perspective. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2012 and is currently an assistant professor at Brandeis University, where she teaches classes on medicine, religion, gender, and the end of life. She is the author of Beyond Surgery: Injury, Healing, and Religion at an Ethiopian Hospital. Her most recent research project investigates medical aid-in-dying in the United States, primarily in Oregon, in an effort to strengthen the scholarly and public debate on aid-in-dying in an aging society.