| Nila Heredia Miranda | |
| Order: | Minister of Health and Sports |
| Minister: | Evo Morales |
| Term Start: | 16 May 2010 |
| Term End: | 2012 |
| Predecessor: | Sonia Polo |
| Successor: | Juan Carlos Calvimontes Camargo |
| Order2: | Vice Minister of Health and Health Promotion |
| Term Start2: | February 2010 |
| Term End2: | 16 May 2010 |
| Order3: | Minister of Health and Sports |
| Term Start3: | January 2006 |
| Term End3: | January 2008 |
| Successor3: | Wálter Selum |
| Birth Date: | 21 September 1943 |
| Birth Place: | Uyuni, Potosí, Bolivia |
| Occupation: | Medical school docent, Administrator |
Nila Heredia Miranda (born in Uyuni, Potosí) is a former medical school anatomy professor and administrator, former leftist militant, and Bolivia's Minister of Health and Sports, a position she has occupied twice.[1]
In the 1970s, Heredia was a member of the Revolutionary Workers' Party of Bolivia and the National Liberation Army during the dictatorship of Hugo Banzer.[2] She was detained by government forces on 2 April 1976, and according to a petition filed with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, tortured in the prefectural headquarters in Cochabamba and held in Viacha prison.[3]