Aubrey Miller

Dr. Miller is Deputy Director of the Office of Scientific Coordination Planning and Evaluation (SCOPE) within the Office of the Director for NIEHS. He leads a portfolio of programs involving global environmental health and climate change, disaster research, and environmental toxics, as well as legislative, policy, strategic planning, and coordination of environmental health issues and activities among NIH, U.S. federal agencies, academia, and other stakeholders. His experiences include numerous public health investigations and research studies involving a wide range of occupational and environmental health issues. He has contributed to the leadership, management, and research responses of numerous disaster responses including the Libby, Montana, Public Health Emergency involving widespread asbestos contamination, Katrina and other major hurricanes, the World Trade Center and anthrax attacks, the Gulf Oil Spill, the H1N1 influenza, Ebola, Zika, and COVID-19 infectious outbreaks, and the East Palestine train derailment. He Co-Chairs the NIH Climate Change and Health Initiative to develop needed research, capacity building, and training, as well as efforts to link climate, environmental, and health data (NIH CHORDS Project). He also directs the NIH Public Health Emergency and Disaster Research Response (DR2) Program which focuses on improving disaster research capabilities through enhancing policies, infrastructure, training, and integration of stakeholders, especially academia and impacted communities.