Dr. Daphne Miller is the Next Speaker in the Mudd Lecture Series The physician and clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco will give a lecture on March 19 in Stackhouse Theater.

By Emily Innes Stanley
March 5, 2026

Dr. Daphne Miller, family physician and clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco, will deliver a lecture at 5:10 p.m. on March 19 in Stackhouse Theater in Elrod Commons as part of W&L’s Mudd Center for Ethics’ series, “Taking Place: Land Use and Environmental Impact.”

The event, which is free and open to the public, is titled “Ethical Considerations in Farmacology: The Tangled Web That Connects Soil and Human Health.” The lecture will be streamed online, and a recording will be available after the event.

Based in Berkeley, California, Miller is also a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health and lead faculty at the Lifelong Family Medicine Residency Program in Richmond, California, where she directs the Community and Integrative Medicine curriculum. She studies the connections between health, culture and agriculture with the goal of building a healthier and more resilient food system, and she founded the Health from the Soil Up initiative at the UC Berkeley Center for Occupational and Environmental Health to engage other health professionals in this mission.

Miller is the author of “The Jungle Effect: The Science and Wisdom of Traditional Diets” (2008) and “Farmacology: Total Health From the Soil Up” (2013). She has been a regular health and science contributor to The Washington Post and has consulted for and presented to organizations around the world, including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Indigenous Terra Madre and Slow Food International.

A graduate of Brown University and Harvard Medical School, Miller completed her family medicine residency and a National Institutes of Health-funded primary care research fellowship at UC San Francisco. She is a past fellow at the Berkeley Food Institute and the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine.

For more information and a complete schedule of events, visit the Mudd Center for Ethics’ series webpage.

The Mudd Center was established in 2010 through a gift to the university from award-winning journalist Roger Mudd, a 1950 graduate of W&L. By facilitating collaboration across traditional institutional boundaries, the center aims to encourage a multidisciplinary perspective on ethics informed by both theory and practice. Previous Mudd Center lecture series themes have included “Global Ethics in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities,” “Race and Justice in America,” “The Ethics of Citizenship,” “Markets and Morals,” “Equality and Difference,” “The Ethics of Identity,” “The Ethics of Technology,” “Daily Ethics: How Individual Choices and Habits Express Our Values and Shape Our World, “Beneficence: Practicing and Ethics of Care,” “The Ethics of Design” and “How We Live and Die: Stories, Values and Communities.”