Dr Adrienne Milner
Senior Lecturer in Public Health
Heinz Wolff 210
- Email: adrienne.milner@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267916
- Global Public Health
- Department of Health Sciences
- College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
Summary
Dr Adrienne Milner is a Senior Lecturer in the Division of Global Public Health, Department of Health Sciences and a member of the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies. Dr Milner’s research addresses issues of health equity in terms of race and ethnicity and sex and gender in education, political, and sports contexts. Specifically, she has studied racial and sexual attitudes, policy preferences, and inequality to examine issues such as police brutality, discrimination of transgender individuals, and affirmative action. Her current work analyses racial and sexual disparities in health outcomes, health policy, and health systems and focuses on COVID-19, the Affordable Care Act, and the NHS.
Dr Milner is co-author with Prof Jomills Henry Braddock II of the monograph, Sex Segregation in Sports: Why Separate Is Not Equal, which uses a socio-legal approach to compare racial and sexual policy and argue that sex segregation in sport should be eliminated. Specifically, Milner and Braddock II focus on why large-scale sex integration in sport would result in a number of social benefits, such as increased safety and access to athletic participation and decreased prevalence of violence against women, eating disorders, and use of performance-enhancing substances. She is also co-editor with Prof Braddock of the collection, Women in Sports: Breaking Barriers, Facing Obstacles.
Dr Milner graduated from Emory University with a double major in Sociology and Women's Studies and went on to complete her MA and PhD in Sociology at the University of Miami. Prior to her move to Brunel, she was a Teaching Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Lecturer in Social Determinants of Health at Queen Mary University of London.
Responsibility
Deputy Lead, Division of Global Public Health
Director, MSc in Global Public Health and Social Justice (online)
Divisional Lead for Research (including Doctoral Research)
Divisional Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Newest selected publications
Milner, A., Nielsen, R. and Norris, E. (2021) 'Brexit and European doctors’ decisions to leave the United Kingdom: a qualitative analysis of free-text questionnaire comments'. BMC Health Services Research, 21 (1). pp. 1 - 19. ISSN: 1472-6963 Open Access Link
Franz, B., Parker, B., Milner, A. and Braddock, II, JH. (2021) 'The Relationship between Systemic Racism, Residential Segregation, and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Deaths in the United States'. Ethnicity and Disease, 32 (1). pp. 31 - 38. ISSN: 1049-510X
Jumbe, S., Milner, A., Clinch, M., Kennedy, J., Pinder, RJ., Sharpe, CA. and et al. (2021) 'A qualitative evaluation of Southwark Council’s public health response to mitigating the mental health impact of the 2017 London bridge and borough market terror attack'. BMC Public Health, 21 (1). pp. 1 - 12. ISSN: 1471-2458 Open Access Link
Franz, B., Milner, A. and Braddock II, JH. (2021) 'Do Black Lives Matter in the American Public’s Mitigation Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic? An Analysis of Mask Wearing and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Deaths from COVID-19'. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. pp. 1 - 7. ISSN: 2197-3792 Open Access Link
Hoque, S., Baker, EH. and Milner, A. (2021) 'A quantitative study of race and gender representation within London medical school leadership'. International Journal of Medical Education, 12. pp. 94 - 100. ISSN: 2042-6372 Open Access Link