About Dr. Greg Miller
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Dr. Miller is co-director of Foundations of Health Research Center and the Louis W. Menk Professor at Northwestern University, where he has appointments in the Institute for Policy Research and Department of Psychology . After receiving a Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles, he completed a clinical internship at Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship in health psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Northwestern in 2012, he was a faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis from 2000 to 2003 and at the University of British Columbia from 2003 to 2012.

Miller’s research focuses on early-life stressors related to poverty, and how they reverberate across the lifespan to influence disease risks. To do this, his work brings together theories and methods from across the behavioral and biomedical sciences. His long-term goal is to establish a behaviorally and biologically plausible understanding of how socioeconomic conditions affect children’s health and to leverage this knowledge to improve practices and policies aimed at mitigating health disparities.

Miller has received a number of honors and awards for his research, including the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Behavioral Medicine, Herbert Weiner Early Career Award from the American Psychosomatic Society, and Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Health Psychology from the American Psychological Association. In 2016 and 2018, he was named a highly cited researcher by Clarivate Analytics, a designation for authors whose article citation rates were in top 1% of their field. In 2025 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Miller’s research has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, and Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He was president of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research from 2015–16.

Honors and Awards

2025 – American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Elected Member
2023-2025 – Highly Ranked Scholar – Lifetime, ScholarGPS, (Designation for authors ranked in top 0.05% of discipline, based on impact and quality of publications)
2023 – Springer Award for Excellence in Publication in Behavioral Medicine (Prather et al, 2021, International Journal of Behavioral Medicine)
2023 – Benirschke Perinatal Pathology Award (given to best paper at 2023 meeting of Society of Pediatric Pathology; co-authored with L Ernst, A. Borders, et al.)
2022 – Patricia Barchas Award in Sociophysiology, American Psychosomatic Society
2021 – Article of the Year, JAMA Health Forum (Finegood et al., Association of wealth and longevity in US adults at midlife)
2021 – Presidential Task Force on Health Equity, American Psychological Association
2020 – Visiting Demographer, University of Texas Population Research Center
2018 – Highly Cited Researcher, Clarivate Analytics (Designation for authors with highest number of papers with citation rates in top 1% of field between 2006-16)
2017 – Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
2016 – Highly Cited Researcher, Thomson Reuters (Designation for authors with highest number of papers with citation rates in top 1% of field between 2004-14)
2016 – Distinguished Fellow, Sage Center for Study of the Mind, UC Santa Barbara
2015 – George A. Miller Award (Awarded for outstanding article in general psychology – Miller, Chen, & Parker, 2011, Psychological Bulletin)
2015-2016 – President, Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research
2015-2019 – Co-Chair, Working Group on Biology and Social Science, Russell Sage Foundation
2010 – Killam Research Prize, University of British Columbia
2009 – Killam Sabbatical Award, University of British Columbia
2009 – Fellow, Society of Behavioral Medicine
2008 – Fellow, Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research
2005 – John McDonald Award, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada
2005 – Herbert Weiner Early Career Award, American Psychosomatic Society
2004 – Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions to Health Psychology, American Psychological Association
2003 – Young Investigator Award, Society of Behavioral Medicine

News Archive:

The Wall Street Journal

• Article (December 2018): “Resilient Teens in a Dangerous World”

The New York Times

• Opinion Editorial (December 2018): “How to Be More Resilient”
• Opinion Editorial (January 2014): “Can Upward Mobility Cost You Your Health?”
• Annual “Year in Ideas” (2007): “70 of the Ideas that helped make 2007 what it was”

The Atlantic

• Article (July 2015): “The Paradox of Effort”

Science Magazine

• Article (July 2009): “The Seductive Allure of Behavioral Epigenetics”

The Economist

• Article (July 2009): “The Evolutionary Origin of Depression: Mild and Bitter”

O, the Oprah Magazine

• Article (January 2008):“Know When to Fold ‘Em”

The Scientific American Mind

• Article: “Who Said Quitters Never Win”