Wilhelmine Miller is a Senior Fellow in the Health Care Research department, where she advises in the areas of health insurance coverage and payment policy, performance measurement, and delivery system design and evaluation. Miller's expertise includes clinical and cost effectiveness research, population health status measures, and social and environmental determinants of health. She is a professorial lecturer in the Department of Health Policy in the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.
Miller joined NORC in 2010 and is Principal Investigator for the Beacon Community Program evaluation, which is assessing the effectiveness and practices of 17 federal grantees that are employing health information technology-supported interventions to improve health care quality, efficiency, and population health. During her previous four years at GWU, Miller was principal investigator for a grant to the university to constitute and manage the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's national advisory commission on the social determinants of health and disease. Miller served on the Institute of Medicine committee that made recommendations for the structure and activities of a national clinical effectiveness research enterprise (Knowing What Works in Health Care: A Roadmap for the Nation, 2008), whose ideas can be found in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's authorization of patient-centered clinical outcomes research.
As a senior program officer at the Institute of Medicine from 1999-2006, Miller directed the work of study committees that assessed clinical and population-level health outcomes as a function of health insurance status; examined federal agencies' capacities and approaches to projecting the economic impacts of health and safety regulations; and organized a symposium on the interface of law and evidence-based medicine. Miller's 14 years of federal service included positions in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation and the Health Care Financing Administration. Her responsibilities included legislative initiatives in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, development of regulations and evaluation in the areas of Medicare coverage, hospital and HMO payment policy, pharmaceutical coverage, rural health, and children's health.