Whitney Miller, MSN
MCH Doctoral-level Trainee
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
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About
Whitney Miller is a PhD candidate in Community Health Sciences, concentrating in Maternal and Child Health. She is a Certified Nurse-Midwife and Family Nurse Practitioner with over a decade of clinical experience across multiple states and diverse healthcare settings. She spent the bulk of her clinical career working in Anchorage, Alaska with the Alaska Native/American Indian population and has extensive experience in the provision of public health in urban and rural capacities. Additionally, she has experience providing care in remote critical access hospitals, urban academic medical centers urban tertiary care centers and Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC).
In addition to providing medical care, Whitney has held multiple MCH leadership roles and worked to expand access to quality MCH care through capacity building, state-wide quality initiatives and research. She has served on the Maternal Child Death Review committee for the State of Alaska, conducted family planning research in rural Guatemala, conducted state-wide emergency obstetric training programs and engaged in both original and translational MCH research. Currently, Whitney is a Clinical Implementation Specialist at Ariadne Labs, a joint health systems innovation center at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In this role, she providers implementation and clinical expertise to the design, test and spread of domestic and international healthcare solutions.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology and Political Science from Hope College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Emory University and a Master of Science degree in Nursing from Emory University. In pursuing a PhD in Maternal Child Health at UIC, Whitney intends to intertwine her clinical MCH and implementation science expertise with a focus on mixed methods research exploring the complex system/structural root causes and solutions to MCH health inequities.
Selected Presentations
- Weiseth A, Edqvist A, Edmonds J, Miller W, Ault K, Griffith I, Short T. “Delivering Patient-Centered Maternity Care through TeamBirth in Northern and Central Europe”. Oral Abstract Presentation at the 2025 NJF Congress, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Miller W, Hanson SJ, Groen RS. “Introduction of a Novel Tool in the Management of Postpartum Hemorrhage”. Poster presented at the 2019 ACOG Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting, Nashville, TN.
- Hurd J, Kamat N, Lurie A, Miller W. “The Development of a Tz’tujil Maya Community Informed Reproductive Health Program at ODIM Clinic of San Pablo and San Juan La Laguna Guatemala”. Poster presented at the 2014 ACNM Annual Scientific Meeting, Denver, CO.
- Bearse E, Graham E, Little M, Miller W, Rohrer J. “The Impact of Group Prenatal Care versus Traditional Prenatal Care on Preterm Birth and Low Birth Weight: A Systematic Review”. Poster presented at the 2013 ACNM Annual Scientific Meeting, Nashville, TN.