Grant Miller

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Grant Miller, PhD, MPP

  • Henry J. Kaiser, Jr. Professor
  • Professor, Health Policy
  • Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
  • Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
  • Professor, Economics (by courtesy)
  • Faculty Fellow, Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development
  • Faculty Affiliate, Stanford Center for Latin American Studies
  • Faculty Affiliate, Woods Institute for the Environment
  • Faculty Affiliate, Interdisciplinary Program in Environment & Resources
  • Faculty Affiliate, Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions

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Biography

As a health and development economist based at the Stanford School of Medicine, Dr. Miller's overarching focus is research and teaching aimed at developing more effective health improvement strategies for developing countries.

His agenda addresses three major interrelated themes: First, what are the major causes of population health improvement around the world and over time? His projects addressing this question are retrospective observational studies that focus both on historical health improvement and the determinants of population health in developing countries today. Second, what are the behavioral underpinnings of the major determinants of population health improvement? Policy relevance and generalizability require knowing not only which factors have contributed most to population health gains, but also why. Third, how can programs and policies use these behavioral insights to improve population health more effectively? The ultimate test of policy relevance is the ability to help formulate new strategies using these insights that are effective.

publications

Journal Articles
March 2017

Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment among Maternity Care Providers in India

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Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment among Maternity Care Providers in India
Journal Articles
March 2017

Effect of a Social Franchising and Telemedicine Programme on Health Care Providers’ Knowledge of, and Quality of Care for, Childhood Diarrhoea and Pneumonia in Bihar, India

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Effect of a Social Franchising and Telemedicine Programme on Health Care Providers’ Knowledge of, and Quality of Care for, Childhood Diarrhoea and Pneumonia in Bihar, India
Journal Articles
August 2015

Intended and Unintended Consequences of China's Zero Markup Drug Policy

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Intended and Unintended Consequences of China's Zero Markup Drug Policy

In The News

Indian Allotment Program
News

Fatal Trade-Off: Land Allotment Policy Raised Native American Death Rates

New Stanford research reveals a 19th-century federal program that gave Native Americans land and citizenship had devastating consequences.
Fatal Trade-Off: Land Allotment Policy Raised Native American Death Rates
African cloth
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U.S. Policy on Global Aid Curtailed Family Planning Services in Africa

A new study finds that the Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance policy, formerly known as the Mexico City Policy, reduced the provision and use of contraceptives, as well as community health volunteer services, in African countries.
U.S. Policy on Global Aid Curtailed Family Planning Services in Africa
Grant Miller charcoal baking site in Brazil
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Stanford Researchers Investigate Human Trafficking Alongside Brazilian Partners

Grant Miller and members of his Stanford Human Trafficking Data Lab travel to Brazil to investigate possible trafficking sites while working with their Brazilian counterparts to expand an AI database.
Stanford Researchers Investigate Human Trafficking Alongside Brazilian Partners