Oxford Professor Melinda Mills will present for the Seminar Series.
About Melinda Mills
Professor Melinda Mills (MBE, FBA) is Professor of Demography & Population Health and Director, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, University of Oxford. Mills’ interdisciplinary work focuses on leveraging and linking multiple types of data (surveys, genetics, wearables, population register, etc.) on topics related to demography (fertility, family, partnerships), labour market and health. She is one of three Special Advisors to the European Commissioner of the Economy, was on the Advisory Board of the Number 10 (UK Prime Minister) Data Science Committee and a UK government advisor during COVID. She is a Trustee of the UK Biobank and on the Scientific Advisory Boards for multiple large data projects (UK’s Our Future Health, UK’s Longitudinal Cohort Data, LifeLines Biobank (Netherlands), US’s Health and Retirement Survey). She also holds a part-time position as Professor of Data Science and Public Health Policy, Department of Economics, Econometrics & Finance, jointly with the Department of Genetics, University of Groningen/UMCG, The Netherlands.
About the presentation
This talk will focus on recent work that employs data-driven solutions to leverage multiple types of high dimensional data and methods to inform policy, emergency preparedness and enact change in government, industry and the third sector. Examples are provided from pandemics, war and natural disasters to preparedness for slow moving emergencies related to demographic change, health, housing and energy demands. The talk covers diverse types of data and methods, including social networks, synthetic controls, geospatial prediction and diverse data linkage (e.g., surveys, social media, satellite, population register, commercial data).
Organizer
La Follette School of Public Affairs, Center for Demography of Health and Aging
Contact
Héctor Pifarré i Arolas, hparolas@lafollette.wisc.edu
