Christine Miller, Ph.D.

 Christine Miller, Ph.D. is a Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Sacramento.  Over the past 24 years, she has held teaching positions and conducted research at four other universities as well.  She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses emphasizing qualitative research methodologies, and her sub-disciplinary specialties are visual communication and message design and analysis.  Her past investigative projects related to health communication include work on research teams investigating car seat use among Slavic immigrants, a drunk driving intervention campaign with teens, breast cancer among American Indian women, risk communication in industrial training videos, environmental justice campaigns, and media reporting about mold exposure.  She is committed to the mission of promoting collaborative research among university and community constituencies, and she believes cancer research to be a supremely meaningful manifestation of such collaboration.