Prof Adrian Miller
Prof Adrian Miller
SENIOR ASSOCIATE
Professor Miller has held leadership roles including Deputy Vice-President at Central Queensland University, Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Leadership at Charles Darwin University and Professor of Indigenous Research at Griffith University. He has previously held Professorial adjunct appointments with University of the Sunshine Coast, Southern Cross University, Griffith University and James Cook University. His most notable experience was in 2008 as an invited speaker at the Oxford Round Table, Rhodes House at Oxford University. Professor Miller has been awarded a PhD, Master of Public Health and Bachelor of Arts from James Cook University.
Over the course of his career, Professor Miller has achieved an outstanding research track record in competitive grants with both the ARC and NHMRC and collaborated on research grants (Cat 1 & 2) totalling over $26 million. He has made significant contributions to Indigenous health and education, achieved through successful competitive and non-competitive research grants, publication outputs, long-term Indigenous community engagement, capacity building work for Indigenous scholars and public policy development.
Professor Miller has served on the review panel for the NHMRC Review for Capacity Building Grants for Population Health and Health Services Research (2008), provided expert scientific peer review of research project proposals for the Cooperative Research Centre for Remote Economic Participation (2009) and from 2010-17 was a member of the College of Experts for the ARC. He has served as an External Grant Reviewer for the ARC and NHMRC, and the NHMRC Research Translation Faculty.
He has a strong interest and experience in applied and translational research. Research capacity development has been a primary focus for these research activities, which has led to positive outcomes for Indigenous community members and organisations. The highly collaborative way he has undertaken research has contributed to intellectual and methodological developments in health and education fields. Having undertaken leadership roles in community-based and government committees to advocate the views of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, he has the capacity to listen to Indigenous communities and thus help bring Indigenous knowledge and needs into research, and to advocate for the translation of indigenous research into public policy.
Professor Miller has published 95 lifetime scholarly articles including 5 book chapters, 37 peer reviewed journal articles, 44 peer-reviewed and invited presentations, 4 industry reports and 2 other publications. His research output over the past 5 years is 8 publications per annum, with an upward trajectory. 98% of Professor Miller’s publications are in Indigenous health, based on engaged and collaborative applied research with Indigenous organisations and community partners, other research institutions and governments to deliver impact. His latest research published in the Nature Journal will lead to novel vaccine development for new strains of influenza for global Indigenous populations. Examples of recent collaborative research with Indigenous community organisations in response to their priority issues include an evaluation of the COVID response by Gurriny Yealamucka Health Service in Yarrabah and incorporation of COVID-related concerns in Local Councils’ Disaster Management Plans.