Lisa Mills

– BA (Hons) History and Political Science (University of Melbourne, Australia)
– MA Political Science (University of Toronto, Canada)
– PhD Political Science (University of Toronto, Canada)

Lisa’s research has focused on two broad areas: health politics and policy in developing countries; and environmental politics and policy. Her health policy research was focused on the implementation of the maternal health Millennium Development Goal (MDG-5). She is now working on the politics of mining regulation, focusing on the Australian case, in a comparative study with Graeme Auld, Alexandra Mallett, and several other researchers.

• Mills, Lisa Nicole. The Limits of Trust: The Millennium Development Goals, Maternal Health, and Health Policy in Mexico, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017.
• Mills, Lisa. Science and Social Context: The Regulation of Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone in North America. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002.

• Mills, Lisa Nicole. “The Conflict over the Proposed LNG Hub in Western Australia’s Kimberley Region and the Politics of Time.” The extractive industries and society 6(1): pp. 67–76 (January 2019) Elsevier Ltd.
• Lysenko, Dmitry, Lisa Mills, and Saul Schwartz. “Does Canada Need Trade Adjustment Assistance?” International journal (Toronto) 72(1): pp. 91-110 (March 2017) London, England: SAGE Publications.
• Mills, Lisa Nicole. “Accounting for Blame: The Paradoxical Consequences of Measuring Maternal Death in Mexico.” Social politics 22(3): pp. 411-431 (2015) Oxford University Press.
• Mills, Lisa. “Citizenship, Reproductive Rights, and Maternal Health in Mexico.” Revue canadienne d’études du développement 31(3-4): pp. 417-438 (January 2010) Taylor & Francis Group.
• Weber, Ashley, and Lisa Mills. “A One-Time-Only Combination: Emergency Medicine Exports and the TRIPS Agreement Under Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime.” Health and human rights 12(1): pp. 109–122 (June 2010) Harvard University Press (United States).
• Mills, Lisa Nicole. “Maternal Health Policy and the Politics of Scale in Mexico.” Social politics 13(4): pp. 487-521 (2006) Oxford University Press.

• “Doing the North American Two-Step on a Global Stage: Canada, its G8 Muskoka Initiative, and Safe Abortion Funding,” in Bruce Doern and Chris Stoney eds. How Ottawa Spends 2012-2013, published by McGill-Queen’s University Press for the School of Public Policy and Administration, pp.242-260. (18 pages)
• “Gender, Democracy and Federalism in Mexico: Implications for Reproductive Rights and Social Policy,” with Laura Macdonald, in Melissa Haussman, Marian Sawer, and Jill Vickers eds. Federalism, Feminism and Multilevel Governance, (Ashgate, 2010), pp. 187 – 199 (12 pages) (second author)
• 3“Birth Models in Mexico: The CASA Hospital and School,” with Robbie Davis-Floyd, in Birth Models That Work, volume edited by Robbie Davis-Floyd, Lesley Barclay, and Jan Tritten. (Berkeley, University of California Press)(first author) 2009. (35 pages)
• “Access to Emergency Medicines: How Ottawa Amends the Patent Act,” (with Ashley Weber), in Bruce Doern ed. How Ottawa Spends 2006-2007, (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2006) (first author) pp. 229-247 (18 pages).
• “‘Terminating’ Agricultural Biotechnology? Hard Law, Public Protest, and the Demise of the Life Sciences Industry,” in Michael Trebilcock and John Kirton (eds.) Hard Choices, Soft Law: Combining Trade, Environment and Social Cohesion in Global Governance (Ashgate, 2004), pp. 334-361. (27 pages)
• “New Media in the New Millenium,” (with Shauna Brail), in David A. Wolfe and J. Adam Holbrook (eds) Innovation, Institutions and Territory: Regional Innovation Systems in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002), (first author) pp. 135-161. (26 pages)

• Black History Month: Carleton Focuses on Anti-Racism Initiatives (Carleton Newsroom, Feb 2021)
• 2020 FPA Excellence Awards: A Virtual Celebration (FPA News, Jul 2020)
• Students as Partners Program Pairs Students and Instructors to Design Courses (Carleton Newsroom, Aug 2020)
• PAPM students push for racial equity, The Charlatan (The Charlatan, Sep 2020)
• Jean Charest Lecture Headlines FPA Research Month (FPA News, Jan 2018)
• An open letter on the Fair Elections Act (The Globe & Mail, Apr 2014)