Karie E. Stewart
MPH, CNM-FPA, FACNM
About
Cohort Year: 2022
Faculty Advisor: Karen Flynn, PhD, RN
Email: kstewa20@uic.edu
Karie E. Stewart is a certified nurse midwife and academic health leader dedicated to advancing maternal health equity. She earned her Master of Science in Nursing degree from UIC and a Master of Public Health degree from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She is also a fellow of the American College of Nurse Midwives and recipient of the 2023 ACNM Excellence in Leadership and Innovation Award.
Her research centers on maternal health equity, diversification of the midwifery workforce, and community-based models of care. She served as Principal Investigator on a $2M HRSA-funded grant examining collaborative Maternal Child Health care within a Federally Qualified Health Center and currently serves as co-Principal Investigator on a $7M PCORI-funded project, Black Midwives for Black Women: Maternity Care to Improve Trust and Attenuate Structural Racism. Her work emphasizes the impact of care coordination, racial concordant care, group prenatal care, nurse navigation, and postpartum doula support on improving outcomes for Black women.
Karie’s long-term goal is to expand evidence-based, community-driven maternal health models that address structural racism and strengthen the pipeline of BIPOC midwives, ultimately transforming the landscape of maternal and reproductive health in her home state of Illinois and the United States.
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Notable Honors
2025, Graduate Nursing Scholarship Recipient, March of Dimes
2025, Elizabeth Bear Education Leadership Fellowship Recipient, The A.C.N.M. Foundation, Inc.
2023, Excellence in Leadership and Innovation Award, American College of Nurse Midwives
2022, Carrington-Hsia-Nieves Doctoral Scholarship for Midwives of Color Recipient, The A.C.N.M. Foundation, Inc.
2022, Workforce Fellowship Recipient, American College of Nurse Midwives
2022, Distinguished Service Award, American College of Nurse Midwives