Dr. Rebecca Fielding Miller

Biography

Rebecca Fielding-Miller is an Associate Professor at the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at the University of California, San Diego, where she focuses her research on the structural drivers of infectious disease and gender-based violence in the United States and sub-Saharan Africa. She has worked extensively on projects examining the intersection of race, gender, and economic inequality. Fielding-Miller served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in South Africa from 2006 to 2008 and was a Fulbright Scholar in Swaziland from 2013 to 2014. Her educational background includes a PhD in Behavioral Sciences and Health Education from Emory University, an MSPH in International Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Davis. She was recognized with the Golden Apple Excellence in Teaching Award by UCSD's Office of Undergraduate Research and has been a Changemaker Fellow as part of an Anti-racist pedagogy learning community in 2021-2022. Her ongoing research includes projects funded by the NIH focusing on perinatal intimate partner violence and addressing sexual harassment violence at the University of Eswatini.

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