Zachary Miller

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) (which is the largest First Nations reserve in Canada, by population). In this current role, he is leading a project that is focused on developing a public health department for his reserve community. 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.

For years, Dr. Miller has taken time to study and be trained in public health emergency preparedness and responses, including to pandemics. His DrPH dissertation research focused on showing the importance for public health leaders to know the history of pandemics & epidemics. His research interests are in the following areas:

• 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