Alison Miller, Ph.D.
Lab Director
Developmental science can help us address public health concerns that disproportionately affect children living with adversity. Individual child factors, family relationships, and social-contextual processes interact to shape child health and well-being. The Child Health and Development Lab conducts research on early-life stress and self-regulation in relation to child mental health, eating behavior and obesity, sleep, media use, injury prevention, and physical activity, and on the influence of parenting and social determinants of health in these areas. A goal of Dr. Miller’s work is to use developmentally-informed approaches to shape community-, school- and/or family-based interventions to promote healthy development. To that end, she collaborates with colleagues across disciplines and with community partners to translate research findings into efforts to reduce health inequities and foster positive health and well-being for children and families.
Relevant websites:
- School of Public Health
- Zero to Thrive
- Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention
- Susan B. Meister Child Health And Evaluation Research Center (CHEAR)
- U-M Pediatric Diabetes C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
- U-M Elizabeth Weiser Caswell Diabetes Institute
- Momentum Center
- Children’s Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Center
- Healthy Homes Coalition of West Michigan
- Science of Behavior Change
- Prevention Research Collaborative
- Sustainable Food Systems Initiative
