Samuel Miles
Postdoctoral Fellow
About Samuel Miles
Sam’s (he/him) research sits at the intersection of electricity and international development. His PhD project (UC Berkeley 2020-2025) adopted an implementation research approach, piloting novel methodologies for quantifying power quality and reliability in hospitals in Fragile, Conflict, and Violence affected African geographies using telemetry and the internet-of-things, innovative survey tools, and geospatial analysis. He currently directs a number of workstreams at the intersection of power and health, including partnerships with Congolese health and electricity government ministries as well as a pilot installation of rugged power systems protection ICUs and other wards on ‘critical circuits’ at 20 hospitals and health facilities in the DRC.