Whitney Miller, MSN

Whitney Miller is a doctoral student in the Community Health Sciences department, concentrating in Maternal and Child Health. She received a BA with a double major in Biology and Political Science from Hope College (2007) and BS/MS degrees in Nursing from Emory University (2014). She started her career in Maternal/Child and Reproductive Health as a Certified Nurse-Midwife/Family Nurse Practitioner serving historically marginalized communities for the last 9 years. She has 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. More recently, she has worked clinically in Chicago, IL at both a large academic institution and a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). In addition to providing medical care, Whitney has held various 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, started state-wide emergency obstetric training programs and conducted both original and translational MCH research.

In pursuing a PhD in Maternal Child Health at UIC, Whitney intends to intertwine her clinical MCH expertise with research into the complex system/structural root causes and solutions to MCH health inequities. Whitney's interests within maternal and child health include reproductive health equity, reproductive health policy, structural root causes, translational research, capacity building, family planning, and the intersections of behavioral science/behavioral economics and MCH health outcomes.