About Karie E. Stewart
Karie E. Stewart , MPH, MSN, CNM, APRN
Karie E. Stewart is a practicing Certified Nurse Midwife with the University of Illinois Mile Square Health Centers and the University of Illinois Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology. She has been a midwife for 6 years and is the current President of the ACNM Illinois Chapter Affiliate.
Karie E. Stewart has been newly inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives in 2023.
Karie E. Stewart received her master’s in nursing from the University of Illinois Chicago and her master’s in public health at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
She started a nonprofit organization in 2019 known as Melanated Midwives which aims to financially support BIPOC student midwives through their midwifery training programs with the goal of diversifying the midwifery workforce.
UI Health
Karie Stewart is a certified nurse-midwife in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at UI Health. Karie specializes in family planning, including contraception management; birthing alternatives, education, and options; group prenatal care; and breastfeeding. She is passionate about Black maternal health, racial-concordant prenatal care, and reproductive justice and health.
More About Karie E. Stewart
Karie is a co-Principal Investigator for MGMC a 7M PCORI-funded project to examine Black Midwives for Black Women: Maternity Care to Improve Trust and Attenuate Structural Racism over the next 4 years, her goal is to highlight the effect that the collective use of evidence-based practices such as racial concordant care, group prenatal care, nurse navigation, and postpartum doulas has on addressing the Black Maternal Health Crisis in Chicago and eventually worldwide.
Additionally, she is the Principal Investigator (PI) on a $2M HRSA grant that was awarded this June to UIC Mile Square Health Clinic for her development, implementation, and evaluation of Community Maternal Health Care (CMHC), a maternal health model of care that focuses on a community collaborative approach to address maternal health disparities within an FQHC in Chicago, IL.
Melanated Group Midwifery Care (MGMC) | University of Illinois Chicago
In Chicago, Black women are six times more likely to die from PREVENTABLE pregnancy-related complications than white women.
Melanated Group Midwifery Care (MGMC) is a research study to test if care from a team of Black midwives, nurses, and doulas can improve pregnancy outcomes for Black women.
U S MATERNAL DEATH IS ON THE RISE, ESPECIALLY AMONG BLACK MOTHERS
by Matter of Fact
Black Midwifery Matters Teaser Video
2023 American College of Nurse-Midwives Fellow
