Dr. Miriam Stewart

Dr. Miriam Stewart is Professor in the Faculty of Nursing and School of Public Health. She is a Health Senior Scholar, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research and a former Medical Research Council of Canada and National Health Research Development Program (MRC/NHRDP) Scholar. Dr. Stewart was Director and Chair of the Centre for Health Promotion Studies University of Alberta (1997- April 2001); Director of the Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre (1992-1997); and, co-principal investigator and co-creator of the Maritime Centre of Excellence on Women's Health (1996-2000).  The two health promotion research centres facilitated over 100 studies during her directorship.

Following an international review, Dr. Stewart was appointed as the inaugural Scientific Director of the national research institute devoted to the study of gender at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. In this capacity, she launched numerous strategic research initiatives, built research capacity, fostered innovative knowledge translation strategies, and attracted over 89 million dollars in partnerships internal and external to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research as lead or partner Institute.

Dr. Stewart's research programs emphasize social determinants of health and relevance to policies and programs for vulnerable populations (e.g. low income, homeless, family caregivers, disabled, immigrants, and refugees). In the research programs and research centres, she has focused on building research capacity; mobilizing interdisciplinary and multi-site research teams; creating research infrastructures; and, establishing partnerships with public, practice and policy domains. She has published extensively including five books, 182 articles and research reports and 29 chapters, and has given more than 550 research-relevant presentations at national and international scholarly conferences/symposia.

Recent Publications

  • Stewart, M., Reutter, L., Makwarimba, E., Veenstra, G., Love, R., & Raphael, D. (2008). Left-out: Experiences of exclusion and inclusion among low-income people. Health Sociology Review, 17(2), 78-94.
  • Stewart, M., Anderson, J., Beiser, M., Makwarimba, E., Neufeld, A., Simich, L. & Spitzer, S. (2008). Multicultural meanings of social support among immigrants and refugees. International Migration, 46(3), 123-159.
  • Neufeld, A., Harrison, M., Stewart, M., & Hughes, K. (2008). Advocacy of women family caregivers and nonsupportive interactions with professionals. Qualitative Health Research, 18, 301-310.
  • Stewart, M., Makwarimba, E., Barnfather, A., Letourneau, N., & Neufeld, A. (2008). Reducing health disparities research: Multiple and mixed methods. Social Science & Medicine, 66, 1406-1417.
  • Drummond, J., Letourneau, N., Neufeld, S., Stewart, M., & Weir, A. (2008). Effectiveness of teaching an early parenting approach within community-based support services for adolescent mothers. Research in Nursing and Health, 31(1), 12-22.
  • Gray, J., & Stewart, M. (2008).  Looking at research through a different lens: The Canadian Institute of Gender and Health. Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 83(11), 188-191.

Miriam J. Stewart
Professor

Email: miriam.stewart@ualberta.ca 
Phone: (780) 492-8038
Office: 7-00 University Terrace

Mailing address:
Faculty of Nursing
Level 3, Edmonton Clinic Health Academy 
11405 87 Avenue
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 1C9

  • Ph.D., Dalhousie University. Halifax, Nova Scotia (1988)
  • M.N., Dalhousie University. Halifax, Nova Scotia (1976)
  • B.Sc.N., McMaster University. Hamilton, Ontario (1967)