Miller, Suellen, PhD, RN, CNM, MHA
Associate Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, UCSF
Director, Safe Motherhood Programs, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, UCSF
Associate Professor, Maternal Child Health Program, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, and Adjunct Faculty, Joint Medical Program, SPH, UCB and Medical School, UCSF
Email: suellenmiller@gmail.com
Biosketch:
Dr. Miller is the Director of Safe Motherhood Programs at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at UCSF, and on the faculty of the Maternal and Child Health Program at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health and the faculty of the Joint Medical Program, UCB/UCSF.
The Safe Motherhood Program comprises intervention projects and research on critical maternal health issues.
Dr. Miller is the principal investigator on multiple studies of the Non-pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment (NASG) for the management of obstetric hemorrhage, in Nigeria, India, Egypt, Zimbabwe, and Zambia. This study includes comparative projects in hospitals in Egypt and Northern and Southern Nigeria, and randomized cluster trails at midwife-staffed primary health care centers in Zimbabwe and Zambia. She is also working on Continuum of Care for Post Partum Hemorrhage Projects, a multi-phase community to facility maternal health project in Nigeria and India,. She is a consultant on maternal health to the Millennium Development Villages in Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, and Nigeria.
Dr. Miller is a co-investigator with Dr. Janet Turan’s research on the effects of the HIV epidemic on maternal health services delivery She is the mentor to Dr. Katherine Todd’s study of peri-natal infections among pregnant women and to Dr. Sadia Haider’s study of near-miss maternal mortality; both of which are in Afghanistan.
Dr. Miller’s expertise is called upon on international technical consultations by bi-lateral organizations, such as WHO and UNICEF. She is on the Expert Panel on Induction and Augmentation of Labor, the California Maternal Quality Care Collaboratives Hemorrhage Task Force, and heads the Prevention of Post Partum Hemorrhage Initiative’s (POPPHI) First Interventions Task Force.
Dr. Miller has traveled to South Africa, Yemen, Afghanistan, Jordan, India, China, Vietnam, and Thailand in addition to site visits to her ongoing projects. She has published over 50 journal articles, including a paper she co-authored that won the Society of Medical Anthropology’s Polgar Prize (Challenge of Cross-Cultural Clinical Trials Research: Case Report from the Tibetan Autonomous Region, People’s Republic of China. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 19 (3): 267-89). She is co-author on the Hesperian Foundation's Book for Midwives, which was awarded the American College of Nurse Midwives’ Notable Book of the Year Award in 2006.
Areas of Interest:
- Obstetric Hemorrhage
- Evidence-Based Obstetrical Medicine
- International Safe Motherhood
Ongoing Research Projects:
Title: Effectiveness of the ASG (Anti-Shock Garment) in Managing Obstetrical Hemorrhage
Key Funders: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Principal Investigator: S. Miller
Title: Effectiveness of the ASG (Anti-Shock Garment in Managing Obstetrical Hemorrhage: Case Series Analysis: Egypt
Key Funders: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Principal Investigator: S. Miller
Title: NASG: Scale-up in Nigeria; Efficacy Trial in Egypt
Key Funders: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Principal Investigator: S. Miller
Title: Effectiveness of the ASG (Anti-Shock Garment) in Managing Obstetrical Hemorrhage: Zambia and Zimbabwe
Key Funders: NIH, NICHD, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Principal Investigator: S. Miller
Title: Blood-Borne Infections Among Peri-natal Patients Coming For Delivery At Four Hospitals in Kabul, Afghanistan
Key Funders: NIH, NICHD
Principal Investigator: C. Todd, S. Miller (Mentor and Co-Investigator)
Title: Pilot: Educational Intervention With New Health Provider Cadre to Determine Effect on Birth-Spacing, Breastfeeding, and Infant Vaccination Completion in a Kabul Antenatal population
Key Funders: NIH, NICHD
Principal Investigator: C. Todd, S. Miller (Co-Investigator)
Title: Health and Reproductive Outcomes for Women with Near-Miss Maternal Mortality in Afghanistan.
Key Funders: anonymously funded project of the UCSF Family Planning Fellowship
Principal Investigator: S. Haider, S. Miller (Co-Investigator)
Title: Maternal Health and Maternity Services in the Context of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Key Funders: NIH NIMH
Principal Investigator: J. Turan, S. Miller (Co-investigator and Mentor)
Title: Continuum of Care Model for Post Partum Hemorrhage: India and Nigeria
Key Funders: Pathfinder, International and The MacArthur Foundation
Principal Investigator: S. Miller, S. Geller
Title: Maternal Health in the Millennium Development Villages: Ghana, Kenya, Ehtiopia, Uganda, and Nigeria
Key Funders: Earth Institute/Columbia University
Principal Investigator: S. Geller, S. Miller (Consultant)
Current Student Research Projects:
2007
Principal Investigator, Comparison of perineal trauma in singleton, vaginal births between Certified Nurse-Midwives and Obstetricians in a community hospital setting. Independently funded study with public health Graduate Student at UC Berkeley Maureen Browne.
2007-current
Principal Investigator, Case Series to Investigate the Hemodynamic Impact of the Non-Pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment (NASG) in Post-Partum Women. Funded by a grant form CTST program (which supports resident-initiated studies) with recent graduate of UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Medical Program Felicia Lester.
2008
Mentor, The Effects of Socioeconomic Development on Daily Life and Emotions in Vietnam. Funded by the Pacific Rim Research Program Mini-grant, with a UCSF’s Joint Medical Program (JMP) student Nadia Taylor.
Updated March 2008