Melinda Mills

She also holds a part-time position as Professor of Data Science and Public Health Policy, Department of Econometrics, Economics and Finance, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

Her substantive research specializes in demography, fertility and human reproductive behaviour, public health policy, emergency response, life course and inequality.

[citation needed] Mills was born in Red Deer, Alberta Canada and attended River Glen Elementary and Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School.

[citation needed] Mills has also conducted research in public health policy, emergency and pandemic responses, including life expectancy losses, social networks, demographic science & fatality rates, COVID-19 certificates, misinformation and social media use, inequality & adherence to NPIs (non-pharmaceutical interventions), geospatial forecasting of hospital demand, gender differences in sleep disruption, and led Royal Society reports on face coverings, vaccine deployment and vaccine passports.

In 2018 she received the Ministerial appointment to serve on the non-Executive Supervisory Board (Raad van Toezicht) for NWO, the Dutch Science Organization.