Faculty Member
Zachary Miller
- Email Address(es)
- zach.miller(at)mail.utoronto.ca
- Division(s)/Institute(s)
- Clinical Public Health Division
- Position
- Adjunct Lecturer
- SGS Status
- Associate (Restricted) Member
Research Interests
- Pandemic & Epidemic leadership responses from historical events to guide future strategies
- Pandemic & Epidemic preparedness
- Addressing fear within Pandemic & Epidemic events
- Indigenous public health
- Indigenous healthcare leadership
- Indigenous relationship building
Dr. Zachary Miller has close to 10 years of experience in healthcare leadership and public administration. He is currently in an interim role as a Public Health Consultant with Six Nations of the Grand River (SNGR), where he is leading a project that is focused on developing a public health department for his reserve community. This work is innovative as it is seeking to explore how to transfer the Public Health Service, currently provided to the community, from Indigenous Services Canada to the local band council. Dr. Miller is also working alongside the Ontario Ministry of Health to find a way to integrate this new service into the provincial system.
Prior to being in the interim consultant role, Dr. Miller was the Executive Director of Data Analytics & Insights at Six Nations of the Grand River (SNGR). SNGR is a local government organization within the Six Nations reserve and it provides various sectors of services to the community. Dr. Miller use to oversee the leadership of the following departments: Data Analytics & Insights, Information Technology Solutions, Communications and Policy. In this prior role, he founded the first ever Data Analytics & Insights department for SNGR. This department provides data analytics and decision support services in the following areas: population health data, service data, research, historical data and systems analysis. Dr. Miller is also trained in IMS 100, 200 & 300 and various other sets of training. As a result, he is often a key leader in community responses to public health emergencies within Six Nations.
Dr. Miller is an Adjunct Lecturer at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, where he will soon be teaching courses within the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) program. Dr. Miller has a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) from the University of Toronto, a Master of Public Health (Indigenous Health focus) from the University of Victoria, and a Bachelor Specialization in Health Studies with a minor in First Nations Studies from the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Miller was a member of the inaugural cohort for the DrPH program at Dalla Lana and was the first to graduate from the program, making him the first to graduate from a Canadian university with a DrPH.