Melinda Mills

Melinda Mills, MBE, FBA (born 1969) is a Professor of Demography and Population Health at the University of Oxford^[1] and Nuffield College^[2] where she is Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science ^[3] and Demographic Science Unit. She also holds a part-time position as Professor of Data Science and Public Health Policy, Department of Econometrics, Economics and Finance, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.^[4]

She has been one of three Special Advisors to the European Commissioner of the Economy,^[5] is a Trustee of the UK Biobank,^[6]  on the Scientific and Ethics Advisory Boards of Our Future Health UK ^[7] and Data and Management Committee of the Health and Retirement Survey US.^[8]

A leading expert in demographic science, she has published more than 120 articles in prominent science and interdisciplinary journals and books ^[9] including two applied statistical textbooks in survival analysis ^[10] and applied quantitative statistical genetics.^[11] Mills’ scientific work spans a range of interdisciplinary topics at the intersection of demography and population, molecular genetics and applied statistics. Her substantive research specializes in demography, fertility and human reproductive behaviour, public health policy, emergency response, life course and inequality.^{[citation needed]}