Professor Suellen Miller is Director of the Safe Motherhood Program and Professor, UCSF Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Professor Miller has been practicing as a certified nurse-midwife since l977, in private and public practices, and is the author of the Hesperian Foundations’ “A Book for Midwives,” which has been translated into French, Spanish, Nepali, and Urdu. She conducts both qualitative and quantitative research, mainly in lower resourced settings, primarily focused on maternal survival and maternal health. Her studies include the clinical trials of the Non-pneumatic Anti-Shock Garment (NASG) and the continuum of maternal care in Peru, Dominican Republic, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Timor Leste, and Tanzania. She is currently Principal Investigator on an NIH-funded study on community reintegration for women having had fistula repair surgery in Uganda and the integration of NASGs in 300 primary health care centers and ambulances in rural Tanzania. The author of over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, Professor Miller is co-author of “Beyond Too Little Too Late, Too Much Too Soon,” in the Lancet 2016 Maternal Health Series as well as author of one on the seminal works on Respectful Care, Quality of care in institutionalized deliveries:
The Paradox of Maternal Mortality in Dominican Republic, 2003 . She is currently co-editing special sections of the BMC Reproductive Health Journal: one on Female Genital Cutting/Mutilation and one on Respectful Maternity Care.