Rate My Professor Rebecca Fielding-Miller

Rebecca Fielding-Miller is an Associate Professor in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at the University of California, San Diego. She previously served as Assistant Professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health from 2017 to 2020 and as a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Global Public Health from 2015 to 2017. She earned a PhD in Behavioral Sciences and Health Education from Emory University in 2015, an MSPH in International Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2010, and a BA in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Davis in 2005. Her research examines structural drivers of infectious disease and gender-based violence in the United States and sub-Saharan Africa, with emphasis on intersections of race, gender, and economic inequality. She has led or co-led projects including wastewater and surface monitoring for COVID-19 in schools, studies on campus sexual violence in Eswatini, and community-engaged research on health equity. Fielding-Miller served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in South Africa from 2006 to 2008 and as a Fulbright Scholar in Swaziland from 2013 to 2014. She has received the UCSD Golden Apple Excellence in Teaching Award and Outstanding Mentor award in 2021, as well as recognition as a Changemaker Fellow. Her work includes numerous peer-reviewed publications on topics such as intimate partner violence, COVID-19 mitigation in school communities, and HIV-related research.

She directs the Health Equity and Global Justice research group at UC San Diego and contributes to initiatives addressing perinatal intimate partner violence, pandemic preparedness, and sexual harassment prevention. Fielding-Miller maintains secondary appointments and collaborates on grants from NIH and other funders focused on global health equity and community-engaged approaches.