Research Interests
Internationally recognized safety economist Ted R. Miller has published more than 200 articles, books, chapters, and proceedings papers. He has estimated injury costs in the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, and Australia, and applied his cost estimates to estimate the return on investment for more than 125 injury and substance abuse interventions. His research primarily focuses on motor vehicle crash, violent, occupational, and consumer product injuries and on underage drinking. Dr. Miller is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine. He founded the award-winning Children's Safety Network Economics and Data Analysis Resource Center. He has received the Vision Award from the State and Territorial Injury Prevention Directors’ Association and the Excellence in Science Award from the Injury Control and Emergency Health Services Section of the American Public Health Association. He serves on the editorial boards of Accident Analysis and Prevention, Injury Prevention, the Journal of Safety Research, the Open Ergonomics Journal, and the Journal of Forensic Economics. He received his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975 and began working in injury prevention in the early 1980s. His work shows convincingly that safety saves money as well as lives. Dr. Miller is a Principal Research Scientist at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation.s.
Dr. Miller's Publications from the PIRE website (forthcoming)