Jane E. Miller is a Professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Until 2019, she was a Research Professor at Rutgers’ Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research. Her latest book is Making Sense of Numbers: Quantitative Reasoning for Social Research, by Sage Publications. Her two previous books The Chicago Guide to Writing about Numbers and The Chicago Guide to Writing about Multivariate Analysis are both in their second editions, and are also available in Chinese translation. She has also written a series of articles in teaching and research journals about on how to communicate about quantitative research. She is currently working on a book about how to teach research writing, based on her experience teaching research methods and the honors research program at the Bloustein School. Dr. Miller’s earlier research concerned relationships between poverty, child health, access to health care, and family time burden. Collaborating with colleagues at the Center for State Health Policy and New Jersey’s Department of Human Services, she conducted several studies of New Jersey’s State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) on issues related to program retention, chronic childhood illness, and other issues. Dr. Miller received a Faculty Scholar’s Award from the William T. Grant Foundation for her work on poverty dynamics and child well-being. She has held faculty affiliations with the Center for Research on Child Well-Being at Princeton University, and the Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research. From 2008-2018, she was the Faculty Director of Project L/Earn, an intensive social science health research training program for undergraduates, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s program on Building Human Capital (2008-16) and the National Science Foundation’s “Research Experiences for Undergraduates” program (2016-18). Dr. Miller received the Faculty Mentor of the Year Award from Rutgers’ Aresty Research Center for Undergraduates in 2007 and a Leaders in Faculty Diversity award from Rutgers University in 2010.
Research Interests
- Quantitative reasoning
- Research communication
- Health services research
- Child health
- Access to health care
Undergraduate Courses
- Research Methods
- Bloustein Honors Research Program
- Data Visualization
Graduate Courses
- Communicating Quantitative Information
- Data Visualization