Dr. Melinda Mills

Biography

Melinda Mills is a Professor of Demography and Population Health at the University of Oxford, where she leads the Demographic Science Unit and the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science. She is also a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College. Her research interests include demography, biodemography, biosocial health, fertility, reproduction, applied statistics, complex trait genomics, and geospatial inequalities in public health policy. She has conducted significant work on the genetics of reproductive behavior and is the founder of Data4Science GWAS Diversity Monitor. Mills has been recognized for her contributions to public health interventions informed by demographic data, social networks, and geospatial analysis related to life expectancy and vaccine hesitancy. She has served as a Special Advisor to the European Commissioner for Economy and is currently a Principal Investigator for the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, among other national and international research initiatives. Mills is an elected Fellow of the British Academy and has received several accolades including an MBE, a Trailblazer Award, and the Clifford C. Clogg Award for Mid-Career Achievement.

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