Dr. Miller is a Research Associate and Epidemiologist at the FXB Center, and is collaborating with Partners in Health as their Head Epidemiologist for Africa Sites. Her research focus over the last decade has been in the evaluation of tools and strategies for use in public health practice and at the community level, with a central research focus in the effectiveness of community-based strategies for tuberculosis control. Her recent work includes various collaborative studies between the Johns Hopkins Center for Tuberculosis Research and the Rio de Janeiro Health Department, including a community-randomized trial of case detection methods for tuberculosis in Rio’s most impoverished neighborhoods, a community-randomized trial of effectiveness of clinic-based vs. community-based tuberculosis treatment strategies, and an evaluation of care-seeking behavior among respiratory symptomatics an impoverished setting in Brazil. In the past, Dr. Miller worked as an Epidemiologist and Assistant Director for Epidemiology and Surveillance in the Division of Tuberculosis Prevention and Control at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, where she was co-principal investigator on several grants evaluating the utility of genotyping for public health practice. Dr. Miller received a BA from Case Western Reserve University, an MPH from Boston University with dual concentrations in Social/Behavioral Science and Epidemiology, and a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in Epidemiology, with a concentration in Infectious Disease Epidemiology. She is delighted to be back in Boston.
