Jennifer Miller
Jennifer Miller, PhD (cand), Founder and Executive Director
Jennifer Miller is the Executive Director of Bioethics International (BEI) and its initiative the World Council for Ethical Standards in Healthcare (WCES) which she founded in 2005. A physicist and bioethicist by training, Miller has interests in the ethics of biomedical research and development (R&D), interactions between pharmaceutical companies and healthcare providers, the publishing and communication of clinical trial data, access to care, and disaster preparedness.
She serves on Putnam Hospital Center’s ethics committee in New York, and was a steering committee member of the Taskforce for Pediatric Mass Critical Care under the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and on the American Medical Association’s National Disaster Life Support Education Consortium. Previously she served as a special consultant to the United Nations ECOSOC (organ facilitating international cooperation on standards-making and problem-solving in economic and social issues) and as an advisor on the Association of Schools of Public Health’s Preparedness and Response Core Competency Development Project.
Miller was awarded a Susan G. Komen Foundation grant to study ethical standards in biomedical R&D, and serves as a fellow in the Global Healthcare Innovation Management Center at Fordham University, and as Course Co-Director for Columbia University's Bioethical Cross-cultural Educational Program. In 2010 she co-chaired the Open Hearts Open Minds and Fair-minded Words Conference at Princeton University, and directed the Biotechnology Industry Organization’s ethics panel on responsible research and development for the 2009 International BIO Convention. In 2008 she co-chaired the United Nations affiliate bioethics conference on procreative beneficence, conscientious objections, and R&D ethics.
Miller is also authoring an online publication series for the US Chamber of Commerce’s BCLC and a chapter on ‘Corruption’ for the Compendium and Atlas of Global Bioethics. She has published select journal articles and her expertise have been featured in both the domestic and foreign press including on Fox News, CBS News, AP News and the cover of Science Magazine’s Career section.
Miller received a B.S. in Physics from Fordham University in New York, a Licentiate in Bioethics (EU Masters), and is a Doctoral candidate in Bioethics at Regina Apostolorum in Italy. She is proficient in the English, Spanish and Italian languages.