Fiona A. Miller, PhD
SGS Status: Full Member
Primary Graduate Appointment: Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
Program: Collaborative Specialization in Bioethics
Primary Teaching Responsibilities:
HAD5011H – Canada’s Health Care System
HAD5022H – Politics, Policy, Public Health and Health Technology
HAD5020 – Canada’s Health Systems and Health Policy II
Available to Supervise CSB Students: Yes
Research Interests
Health technology policy; Health research policy, commercialization and innovation; Health technology regulation, especially health technology assessment and procurement; Sustainable innovation; Sustainable development (environmental, social, political economic) in health systems
Current Research Projects
Main current grants as PI:
- Blockbuster diagnostics? The political economy of diagnostic innovation in comparative perspective
- Pathways to Procurement: Processes, Rationales & Options for Investing in Health Technology Innovation
Education & Training History
I was trained as an historian of twentieth century science and medicine at the University of Victoria (MA) and York University (PhD). I then held a Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in the history and sociology of science and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at McMaster University in health policy.
- 1991 B.I.S. Bachelor of Independent Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Supervisor: Dr. Anne Innis Daag.
- 1993 M.A. Department of History, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Concentration: History of science and medicine. Supervisor: Dr. Angus McLaren. - 2000 Ph.D. Department of History, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Concentration: History of science and medicine; Social history. Supervisor: Dr. Gina Feldberg. - 2000 Fulbright Visiting Researcher, Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Supervisor: Dr. M. Susan Lindee.
- 2001 Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Supervisor: Dr. Mita Giacomini.
Honours & Awards
- 2017 – 2022 - Chair in Health Management Strategies, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
- 2016 - Eugenie Stuart Award for Best Supervisor, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- 2014 - Kiran van Rijn Award, for contributions to The Health Care, Technology and Place, CIHR Strategic Training Program, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- 2012 - Visiting Scholar Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics Fellowship, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
- 2012 - Eugenie Stuart Award for Curriculum Development, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, with A. Paul Williams and Tina Smith, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- 2007 – 2012 - New Investigator Award, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR), Toronto, Ontario, Canada; held at University of Toronto.
- 2007 - Senator William McMaster Chair in Health Policy for Innovative Technologies, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (awarded through 2011, renewable); held at McMaster University.
- 2003 – 2007 - Career Scientist Award, Health Research Personnel Development Program, Open Provincial Competition, Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (MOHLTC), Toronto, Ontario, Canada (awarded through 2008); held at McMaster University.