Background
Miller was born on March 9, 1917, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Benjamin and Mary Elizabeth Chritcherson Miller.
Miller was born on March 9, 1917, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Benjamin and Mary Elizabeth Chritcherson Miller.
He attended Northwestern University and Antioch College. After graduating from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1950, he attended Harvard University, where he was awarded a master"s degree in public health in 1956.
He was primarily raised in Wadsworth, Ohio. He was employed by the United States Public Health Service in Washington, District of Columbia, where he was responsible for nutrition programs. Starting in 1957, he was assigned to the Public Health Service Indian Hospital in Tuba City, Arizona, remaining there until 1959.
He went to Africa in the 1960s to perform a study on heart disease at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Gabon.
He developed a close relationship with Doctor Schweitzer, and cared for him until his death in 1965. He joined the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta in 1968.
He retired from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 1980. Miller co-edited the book The relevance of Albert Schweitzer at the dawn of the 21st century with James Pouilliard, a work originally published by the University Press of America in 1992 that collected papers that had been presented in August 1990 at the United Nations as part of the International Albert Schweitzer Colloquium.
Miller died at age 80 on March 27, 1997, due to lymphoma at his home in Lavonia, Georgia.