A recent article about the new professor in the Anthropology Department. Very exciting:
Before joining the Willamette faculty, Millen directed the Institute for Health and Social Justice at Harvard Medical School in Boston, where she helped write blueprints for aid foundations and white papers for Congress. While there, she co-authored two landmark books, Dying for Growth and Global AIDS, which examine how and why poor people are often harmed in the wake of economic globalization.
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Millen will continue to advocate for global health from Willamette. Granted, it’s a long way from Washington, D.C., where she grew up, and a longer way from Africa, but she sees fertile ground here. She hopes to share her passion for social justice with upcoming generations of students.
“To me, it’s all about fairness—who gets health care and life-saving drugs, and who doesn’t,” she says, noting that the people who need greater access are precisely those least likely to attain it. “While life expectancy in wealthy countries continues to climb, it is plummeting elsewhere.
“The countries experiencing the greatest declines in life expectancy are in Africa,” she says, “but Africa is not some outpost disconnected from the rest of us. We live in an interconnected world, and Africa’s survival depends more than ever on our collective ability to care.”
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