Her work focuses on the nutritional health and livelihoods of low income women and children in Africa and the United States. A native of South Africa, Dr. Setiloane earned her doctorate from Tufts University School of Nutrition Science and Policy in the area of Malnutrition and Socioeconomic Development with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health. She is committed to using her academic expertise and lived experience in Apartheid South Africa, and other parts of the world, to increase the awareness, knowledge and understanding between health professionals, who often use western biomedical modes of knowledge and their clients who use traditional cultural knowledge patterns. She has recently developed and taught for the first time this semester, a new course titled 'Cultural Awareness for Health and Healthcare.'