Melinda Mills
Professor of Demography and Population Health
Melinda Mills, MBE, FBA is Professor of Demography and Population Health, Nuffield Department of Population Health (OxPop) and Nuffield College and Director, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science and Director of the Demographic Science Unit, University of Oxford.
Her research spans diverse interdisciplinary topics in biodemography, empirical sociology, statistics, public health and molecular genetics. Her work focuses on sociogenomics, combining social science and molecular genetic approaches to the study of behavioural outcomes, with a focus on reproduction, chronotype, nonstandard and precarious employment. Her works also examines behavioural and diverse approaches to health interventions, including behavioural and policy responses.
Mills has published 7 books and over 150 articles across multiple scientific disciplines including Nature Genetics, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Annual Review of Sociology, JAMA Psychiatry. She has written 2 statistical textbooks, Introducing Survival and Event History Analysis in R (Sage, 2011) and An Introduction to Statistical Genetic Data Analysis (MIT, 2020).
She is the Founder of Data4Science and co-founder of the GWAS Diversity Monitor that monitors the lack of ancestral and geographic diversity of research subjects in medical and genetic discoveries. She is PI (principal investigator) of the Leverhulme Trust Large Centre Grant for the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, PI of the ERC Advanced Grant CHRONO and ERC Proof of Concept Grant DNA4Science. She was the PI of the ERC Consolidator Grant SOCIOGENOME and the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods SOCGEN project. She was the Editor in Chief of the European Sociological Review (2012-17). She received her MA in Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada and Ph.D. in Demography at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
Since 2022, Mills is a Special Advisor to Paolo Gentiloni, the European Commissioner for the Economy. She is also a Trustee of the UKBiobank and on the Scientific Advisory Board for Our Future Health, the Centre for Longitudinal Studies Cohorts (UK), Lifelines Biobank (Netherlands) and the Health and Retirement Survey (US).
She served on the UK Government Office of Science SAGE (Science Advisory Group for Emergencies sub-committees of SPI-B, Ethnicity and Vaccine Science Coordination group) and the Royal Society’s SET-C (Science in Emergency Tasking COVID-19) group. She was one of 8 expert advisors on the High-Level Advisory Group for Paolo Gentiloni, European Commissioner for the Economy on post-COVID economic and social recovery, on the non-Executive supervisory board of the Dutch National Science Council (NWO) and Executive Board of the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) of UKRI. She has served on the Executive Committee of the Economic and Social Research Council, UK, supervisory Board of the Dutch Science Council. She currently serves on various data Science Advisory Boards including Our Future Health, British Birth Cohorts (UK), Health and Retirement Survey (US), ODISSEI and LifeLines Biobank (Netherlands).
In 2018 she was awarded an MBE and nominated as a British Academy Fellow. In 2020 she received the Clifford C. Clogg Award for Mid-Career Achievement from the Population Association of America and in 2022 the Trailblazer Award from the European Association of Population Studies, for outstanding acheivements in methods, mathematical and biodemography.
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