Elizabeth Miller
Professor Miller is a Consultant Epidemiologist, after having served as Head of the Immunisation Department for 15 years, at the Health Protection Agency, Centre for Infections, in Colindale North West London. Professor Miller joined the Epidemiological Research Laboratory in 1978.
The ERL had a long history of vaccine-related research and Professor Miller was recruited to work on the large post-licensure safety and efficacy studies of pertussis vaccines that were being conducted following the collapse of the UK whooping cough immunisation programme in the mid 1970s. This experience prompted her continuing interest in the risks and benefits of vaccination programmes and organising trials of new vaccines. She has been involved with trials of acellular pertussis, MMR, Hib, meningococcal C vaccines and more recently the new pneumococcal and HPV vaccines. Her other interests include seroepidemiology and mathematical modelling, vaccine safety studies and viral infections in pregnancy.
She has wide experience of committee membership, covering bodies such as the UK and European licensing authorities, the WHO Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety, and the WHO Global Strategic Advisory Group of various Data Safety Monitoring Boards, The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) subgroups and scientific organisations such as the Medical Research Council. She has also led or acted as an external expert on various European projects combined with her work for the European Medicines Evaluation Agency.
