Anne Mills

{{Short description|British authority on health economics}} {{for|the 18th-century British sailor|Ann Mills}} {{Use British English|date=November 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2017}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = Emeritus Professor | name = Dame Anne Mills | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|DCMG|CBE|FRS|FMedSci}} | birth_name = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1951|1|26}} | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | residence = | citizenship = | fields = | workplaces = London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | education = Aylesbury High School <br /> Oxford High School | alma_mater = St Hilda's College, Oxford <br /> University of Leeds <br /> University of London | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = Fellow of the Royal Society | signature =  | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = | spouse = Patrick Corran<ref name="Who's Who 2013"/> }} '''Dame Anne Jane Mills''' (born 26 January 1951) is a British authority on health economics. She is Emeritus Professor of Health Economics and Policy at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.<ref name="LSHTM">{{cite web|url=http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/mills.anne |title=Professor Anne Mills |format=London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine}}</ref>

==Early life and education== Mills was born on 26 January 1951.<ref name="Who's Who 2013">{{cite web|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U245414/MILLS_Prof._Anne_Jane?index=1&results=AdvancedSearchResults&query=0 |title=MILLS, Prof. Anne Jane |website=Who's Who 2013|publisher=Oxford University Press}}{{subscription required}}</ref> She was educated at Aston Clinton Primary School, Aylesbury High School, an all-girls grammar school, and at Oxford High School, an all-girls private school.<ref name="Who's Who 2016">{{cite web|title=MILLS, Dame Anne (Jane)|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U245414|website=Who's Who 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=26 January 2016|date=November 2015}}{{subscription required}}</ref> She studied history and economics at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and graduated from the University of Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1973; as per tradition, her BA was later promoted to a Master of Arts (MA (Oxon)) degree.<ref name="Who's Who 2016" /> She completed a postgraduate diploma in Health Service Studies at the University of Leeds in 1976. She undertook postgraduate research in health economics at the University of London, and completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1990.<ref name="Who's Who 2013"/>

==Research== Mills' major domain of research is on ways of providing efficient and equitable health care in low- and middle-income countries. Her work began in the 1980s in Nepal on the cost-effectiveness of interventions for malaria.<ref name="LSHTM"/>

She was a member of the Disease Control Priorities Project. Mills was Vice-director and then Deputy Director and Provost of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine from 2011 to 2023. She became a Foreign Associate of the Institute of Medicine in 2006, President of the International Health Economics Association in 2012 and joined the Board of Health Systems Global the same year.<ref name="Who's Who 2013"/>

==Honours== In 2009, Mills was awarded the Prince Mahidol Award for Medicine in recognition of her contribution to the development of health economics and health systems research in Africa and Asia.<ref name="Who's Who 2013"/> She was elected to a Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2009.<ref name="Who's Who 2013"/>

In the 2007 New Year Honours, Mills was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "for services to Medicine".<ref name="LG 30 December 2006">{{London Gazette |issue=58196 |date=30 December 2006 |pages=7–8 |supp=y }}</ref> In the 2015 New Year Honours, she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG) "for services to international health".<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=61092|supp=y|page=N3|date=31 December 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/391415/Diplomatic_and_Overseas_NY15_Honours_List.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=31 December 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141231045943/https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/391415/Diplomatic_and_Overseas_NY15_Honours_List.pdf |archivedate=31 December 2014 }}</ref>

Mills was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci) in 2009.<ref name="bio - MedSci">{{cite web|title=Professor Dame Anne Mills DCMG CBE FRS FMedSci|url=http://www.acmedsci.ac.uk/fellows/fellows-directory/ordinary-fellows/professor-anne-mills/|website=Fellows Directory|publisher=Academy of Medical Sciences|accessdate=26 January 2016}}</ref> She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013.<ref name="bio - Royal Society">{{cite web|title=Anne Mills|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/anne-mills-11959/|website=The Royal Society|accessdate=26 January 2016}}</ref>

==Personal life== She is married to Patrick Corran. The couple has two sons.<ref name="Who's Who 2013"/>

== Selected bibliography == === Books === * {{cite book | last1 = Mills | first1 = Anne J. | last2 = Black | first2 = Robert E. | last3 = Merson | first3 = Michael | title = Global health: diseases, programs, systems, and policies | publisher = Jones & Bartlett Learning | location = Burlington, Massachusetts | year = 2012 | edition = 3rd | isbn = 9780763785598 }}

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