Dr. Miller's research program addresses how individual child factors, social relationships and contextual processes shape healthy development for children. She focuses primarily on children and youth growing up in poverty and who have experienced adverse early life events. Self-regulation, managing stress and adversity, and the influence of social context are themes throughout her work. She studies how biological, social-behavioral, and broader contextual influences can shape child health outcomes, particularly early in the lifespan, and how the balance between these influences can shift over time. She has applied a developmental science lens to inform her research on child health outcomes, from childhood obesity, to mental health, sleep, and chronic illness management, including Type 1 Diabetes. She is also studying how to support parents to support their children's health and development, in order to improve health outcomes for young children. Integrating a developmental science perspective is essential in order to address public health concerns that disproportionately affect low-income children and promote positive child outcomes across time. To achieve this goal, Dr. Miller collaborates with colleagues across disciplines and community partners to translate research findings into intervention approaches that may ultimately reduce health inequities and foster positive health and well-being for children and families.