Daphne Miller, MD, Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco, and Research Scientist at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health
Dr. Daphne Miller
Daphne Miller, MD, is a family physician, science writer, Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco, and Research Scientist at the University of California Berkeley School of Public Health. She is the founder of the Health from the Soil Up Initiative, which brings together experts from medicine, public health and agriculture, to build a "health sensitive" food system from the soil up and she works on a range of projects at the nexus of health, food, ecology, and agriculture.
Dr. Miller is a regular health and science contributor to the Washington Post. She has two books about food, agriculture and health: The Jungle Effect, The Science and Wisdom of Traditional Diets (HarperCollins 2008) and Farmacology, Total Health from the Soil Up (HarperCollins 2013). Farmacology appears in four languages and was the basis for the award-winning documentary In Search of Balance.
Dr. Miller is a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Medical School and completed her family medicine residency and an NIH-funded primary care research fellowship at University of California San Francisco. She is on the Advisory Board of the Center for Health and Nature at Oakland Children's Hospital, the UC Berkeley Institute for Parks, People and Biodiversity and the Edible Schoolyard Foundation and a past Fellow at the Berkeley Food Institute and the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine.
Dr. Miller lives and gardens in Berkeley, California.
When
October 24, 2019, 4:00 PM
Where
101 Ag Sciences & Industries Building
Abstract
Healthy farms, Healthy people - How can we bridge the silos of health and agriculture?
Farms and soil shape our health through nutrients, microbes, water, air, climate, economy, and community. Given what a central role agriculture plays in our health, it is surprising how little experts in human health and nutrition participate in studying or determining what foods we grow or how we grow them. This needs to change to prevent chronic disease, build health equity, offer nutrient-dense food to a growing population, and protect and restore the environment. This lecture will offer a roadmap for experts in nutrition, medicine and agriculture who wish to explore common ground and initiate a transdisciplinary collaboration.
