Jennifer Miller
Jennifer Miller, PhD (cand), Founder and Executive Director
Executive Director of Bioethics International (BEI), Jennifer Miller is a leading expert in person-centered bioethics as well as disaster preparedness and resource allocation ethics. A physicist by training, Miller founded BEI in 2005. Throughout her career she has served as an advisor and educator on a wide range of bioethics issues around the world and across the healthcare supply chain, including for top universities, the American Medical Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) scientists, consulting firms, bio-pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and health systems, NGOs, policy writers, the private sector and the media. A powerful and effective speaker, Miller’s expertise and interviews have been featured in both the domestic and foreign press including on Fox News, CBS News and the cover of Science Magazine’s Career section.
Miller works extensively in the area of disaster and pandemic preparedness ethics. She directs the ethics subgroup for the CDC Mass Critical Care in Pediatrics, a follow up to the National Task Force on Critical Care. Additionally, Miller is a curriculum developer and advisor for the Association of Schools of Public Health and theAmerican Medical Association’s National Disaster Life Support Education Consortium. To provide outcome and evidence based ethical frameworks, she is coordinating a national study on operationalizing ethical best practices in pandemic influenza decision-making.
Miller is a member of the three person executive committee for Princeton University’s 2010 Bioethics Conference focusing on finding common ground on contentious and polarizing issues.
The Biotechnology Industry Organization also chose Ms. Miller to speak on and direct their ethics panel for the 2010 International BIO Convention.
Miller served on the executive steering committee and co-chaired the 2008 United Nations affiliate bioethics conference. She also moderated and organized United Nations panels on Procreative Beneficence, Ethics and Pharmaceutical R&D, and Conscientious Objections.
In 2007, Miller was appointed a special consultant to the United Nations as the representative for a Mexican NGO focusing on women’s health. She also served as an expert panelist for the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) World Congress in Washington, DC. and the Appignani Center for Bioethics at theUnited Nations.
While attending a scientific conference in 2001, Miller saw first-hand great advancements in healthcare and biotechnology along with the very real uncertainties surrounding their daily applications and allocations. Recognizing the growing challenges associated with balancing the desire and need for profit with patient and community responsibilities, Miller founded BEI to ensure that premier training and advisement reach the professionals and organizations directly intervening in and affecting the health and lives of people around the world. She developed BEI to meet the needs of the clinician bedside, the scientist lab-side, the policy-maker desk-side and the executive in the boardroom – to empower them to make the best decisions for themselves, their patients, their institutions and their communities.
Today, thanks to hospitals and pharmaceutical companies committed to providing superior care and maintaining excellent ethics along with her dedicated supporters who champion human rights and dignity, Miller’s work has affected the practices of thousands of doctors, nurses and scientists directly improving the quality of care for an estimated 1 million patients. As the editor of Ethics Illustrated and former author for the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s (BIO) online publications BioVoice, Bio on the Road, and Blogging Biotech, her expertise reaches a vast audience of bio-pharmaceutical companies and thousands of professionals globally.
Miller received a B.S. in Physics from Fordham University in New York, a Master’s Degree in Bioethics, and is a candidate for a Doctorate in Bioethics from Regina Apostolorum in Italy. She is proficient in the English, Spanish and Italian languages.