Katharine Stewart

Bio

Katharine Stewart is a professor in the department of psychology and the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic Affairs at NC State University. Dr. Stewart’s research has focused on behavioral interventions to improve health outcomes among several different populations, including people taking antiretroviral medications for HIV; mothers living with HIV; individuals living with multiple diagnoses of HIV, mental illness, and substance abuse; and rural stimulant users. Her work as a principal investigator or co-PI has been funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and she has served in leadership roles in multiple federally-funded research centers, including the Center for AIDS Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the Center for Minority Health Disparities Research and the Translational Research Institute at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. She earned her bachelors degree in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her MPH in public health policy and her PhD in clinical medical psychology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.