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Dr. Miriam Stewart is Professor in the Faculty of Nursing and in Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine (University of Alberta). 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 former Director of the Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre, co-principal investigator and co-creator of the Maritime Centre of Excellence on Women's Health and Director and Chair of the Centre for Health Promotion Studies (Alberta). She is currently Director of the Social Support Research Program at the University of Alberta. Research funding generated over the past decade includes over $10,000,000 from national peer review agencies (e.g., Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, NHRDP, MRC, Canadian Health Services Research Foundation), other national and provincial foundations, and government.
Dr. Stewart's research emphasizes social determinants of health and relevance to policies and programs for vulnerable populations. 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, over 120 articles and research reports and 23 chapters, and has given more than 450 research-relevant presentations at national and international scholarly conferences. Dr. Stewart was Canadian representative on the Pan American Health Organization Advisory Committee on Health Research. She was Chair of a MRC committee and a NHRDP committee, and reviewer for national and provincial research funding agencies.
Dr. Stewart served on the National Steering Committee of the Centres of Excellence on Women's Health and chaired two national sub-committees; contributed to expert panels for the Canadian Health Network; and, prepared synthesis papers for the National Forum on Health and Health Canada. She is appointed to the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Advisory Committee on Population Health and the College of Reviewers for the Canada Research Chairs.
Term end: December 31, 2007
