James Miller, is Managing Director of Oxford International Development Group (OIDG), a health system research and consulting company located in Oxford, Mississippi.
In 2007, OIDG’s assessment of financially ailing rural Mississippi Delta hospitals focused on the impact that lack of patient access to preventive/primary care services was having on hospital financial stability and, more importantly, the decades-long poor health indicators among the impoverished African-American community in the region. In response, in 2009 Miller began working with the original architects of the proven and effective Iranian Primary Health Care system, and initiated an effort to adapt their rural model to the health disparity challenges in the impoverished Delta region.
In 2015, OIDG began partnering with the Iranian Critical Care Society (NGO) to support health system reform in Iran through increased humanitarian trade to alleviate shortages in medical devices and pharmaceuticals caused by sanctions.