Short biography

Daphne Miller, MD is Founder and Director of The Growing Health Collaborative, a program based at the University of California Berkeley Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, which engages health professionals in transforming the food system from the soil up. She is a practicing family physician, Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, and Curriculum Director for Integrative and Community Medicine at the Lifelong Family Medicine Residency Program in Richmond, California. Miller is also a Health and Science Contributor to the Washington Post and the author of two books on food and farming: The Jungle Effect, The Science and Wisdom of Traditional Diets and Farmacology, Total Health from the Ground Up. 
Miller is a past Fellow at the Berkeley Food Institute and the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. She has served as a health advisor or consultant to national and international organizations dedicated to sustainable and equitable food production, including the Rodale Institute, #NoRegretsInitiative, The Edible Schoolyard, Indigenous Terra Madre, Vice President Al Gore’s Climate Underground, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN.
Dr. Miller lives and gardens in Berkeley, California.