Heather G. Miller

PhD, MFS

Consultant

(207) 662-3110 Fax

Dr. Heather Miller consults with CORE on the development of research grants and projects. Dr. Miller received a bachelor’s degree from Connecticut College and earned master’s and doctoral degrees from George Washington University. Dr. Miller spent more than a decade at the NIH, working as a program officer at NIAID, the AIDS coordinator at NIAAA, the Women’s Health Advisor and Director of the Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation at NCCAM, and as the Senior Advisor to the Deputy Director for Extramural Research in the Office of the Director of NIH. At the Research Triangle Institute, she was the Director of the Health and Behavior Measurement Program where she conducted NIH-supported research and served on several NIH review groups. Dr. Miller also worked at the National Research Council, at the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences where she wrote two book-length reports on AIDS. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals.

Selected peer-review publications (in chronological order)

Books

Miller HG, Turner CF, Moses LE, eds. (1990) AIDS: The Second Decade. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.
Turner CF, Miller HG, Moses LE, eds. (1989) AIDS, Sexual Behavior, and Intravenous Drug Use. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press.

Publications

Miller HG, Becker M. Changing behavior to limit the spread of AIDS. In Jarmul D, (ed.), Headline News, Science Views. Washington, DC, 1991: National Academy Press.
Miller HG, Aral S. Uniting research communities to improve STD research. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 1995, 22:162-163.
Adair EB, Craddock SG, Miller HG, Turner CF. Quality of treatment data: Reliability over time of self-reports given by clients in treatment for substance abuse. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 1996, 13(2):145-149.
Turner CF, Miller HG, Smith TK, Cooley PC, Rogers SM. Telephone audio computer-assisted self-interviewing (T-ACASI) and survey measurements of sensitive behaviors: Preliminary results. In R. Banks, et al., eds., Survey and Statistical Computing 1996. Chesham, Bucks, U.K.: Association for Survey Computing.
Turner CF, Rogers SM, Hendershot TP, Miller HG, Thornberry JP. Improving representation of linguistic minorities in health surveys: A preliminary test of multilingual audio-CASI. Public Health Reports 1996, 111:276-279.
Adair, EB, Craddock SG, Miller HG, Turner CF. Assessing Consistency of response to questions on different types of cocaine use. Addiction 1996, 90:1497-1502.
Hendershot TP, Thornberry J, Rogers SM, Miller HG, Turner CF. Multilingual audio-CASI: Using English-speaking field interviewers to survey elderly Korean households. In R. Warnecke (ed.), Health Survey Research Methods . Hyattsville, Md.: National Center for Health Statistics, 1996.
Turner CF, Miller HG, Rogers SM. Survey measurement of sexual behaviors: Problems and progress. In J. Bancroft, ed., Researching Sexual Behavior. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
Turner CF, Miller HG. Monitoring trends in drug use: Strategies for the 21st century. Substance Use and Misuse (formerly International Journal of the Addictions) 1997, 32(14):2093-2103.
Rogers SM, Miller HG, Turner CF. Effects of interview mode on bias in survey measurements of drug use: Do respondent characteristics make a difference? Substance Use and Misuse (formerly International Journal of the Addictions ) 1998, 33(10):2179-2200.
Gribble JN, Miller HG, Rogers SM, et al. Measurement of AIDS-related behaviors in older populations: Methodological Issues. Research on Aging 1998, 20(6):798-821.
Des Jarlais DC, Paone D, Milliken J, Turner CF, Miller HG, Gribble J, Shi Q, Hagan H, Friedman SR. Audio computer interviewing to measure HIV risk behavior in a high risk population. Lancet 1999, 353:1657-1661.
Miller HG, Cain VS, Rogers SM, Gribble JN, Turner CF. Correlates of bacterial STDs: An analysis of the 1995 NSFG data. Family Planning Perspectives 1999, 31:4-9.
Miller HG, Gribble JN, Mazade LC, Turner CF. Abortion and breast cancer risk: Fact or artifact? In Stone A. ed., Science of Self Report. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999.
Gribble JN, Miller HG, Rogers SM, Turner CF. Interview mode and measurement of sexual behaviors: Methodological Issues. Journal of Sex Research 1999, 36:16-24.
Gribble JN, Miller HG, Catania JA, Pollack L, Turner CF. The impact of T-ACASI interviewing on reported drug use among men who have sex with men. Substance Use and Misuse 2000, 35 (6-8):869-890.
Metzger DS, Koblin B, Turner C, Navaline H, Valeni F, Holte S, Gross M, Sheon A, Miller HG, et al. A randomized controlled trial of audio-assisted computer self-interviewing: Utility and acceptability in longitudinal studies. American Journal of Epidemiology 2000, 152:99-106.
Cooley PC, Miller HG, et al. Automating telephone surveys: Using T-ACASI to obtain data on sensitive topics. Computers in Human Behavior 2000, 16:1-11.
Turner CF, Rogers SM, Miller HG, et al. Untreated Gonococcal and Chlamydial Infection in a Probability Sample of Baltimore Adults. Journal of the American Medical Association 2002, 287(6):726-733.
Rogers SM, Miller HG, Miller WC, Zenilman JM, Turner CF. NAAT-identified and self-reported gonorrhea and chlamydial infections: Different at risk population subgroups? Sexually Transmitted Diseases 2002, 29:588-596.
Miller HG, Li RM. Measuring hot flashes. Mayo Clinic Proceedings 2004, 79:668-670.
Sherman S, Miller HG, Nerurkar L, Schiff I. Research opportunities for reducing the burden of menopause-related symptoms. American Journal of Medicine 2005, 118 (Suppl. 2): 166-171.