Career Brief
Over the past four years, Dr. Miller developed and co-directed the IOM study on the consequences of uninsurance, which produced a series of six reports on the subject that were released between October 2001 and January 2004. Her earlier IOM projects included evaluation of and recommendations for federal immunization financing policy, and a symposium on the treatment of evidence-based medicine by the courts. Currently she directs a study commissioned by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to make recommendations regarding the use of cost effectiveness analysis by federal regulatory agencies.

Prior to joining IOM, Dr. Miller was an adjunct faculty member in the Departments of Philosophy at Georgetown University and Trinity College, Washington, DC, where she taught political philosophy, ethics, and public policy. She received her doctorate from Georgetown in 1997, with studies and research in bioethics and issues of social justice. In 1994–1995, Dr. Miller surveyed contemporary human subject research protections as practiced by federal agencies for the President’s Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments. From 1976-1989 she served as a policy analyst and social scientist within the Department of Health and Human Services, responsible for policy development and regulatory review in areas that included hospital and HMO payment, Medicare and Medicaid prescription drug benefits, and child health.

Dr. Miller received her MS degree in health policy and management from Harvard University in 1976.