Suellen Miller

Dr. Suellen Miller is the Director of Safe Motherhood Programs at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, Associate Professor at the University of California San Francisco, and Associate Professor in the Maternal and Child Health Program at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. Dr. Miller is an experienced maternal health clinician, having practiced as a certified nurse midwife for over thirty years. Her focus areas are international safe motherhood and advocating for maternal health as a human right.

Dr. Miller has extensive experience in international reproductive health in a variety of countries and cultures, including: Ethiopia, Philippines, Sudan, Bolivia, Mexico, Nigeria, Egypt, Yemen, India, Zambia, Tibet, and Zimbabwe. She has created training programs for every level of health care worker, such as surgeons, village and community health workers, anesthesiologists, TBAs, and nurse-midwives.

She has written over 50 articles and multiple book chapters on midwifery, and has been working with the Hesperian Foundation since 1992, contributing to Where There is No Doctor, Where There is No Doctor for Women, and A Book for Midwives.