Christiana Miewald, PhD

Email: cmiewald@sfu.ca

Christiana Miewald is a research associate and adjunct professor with the Centre for Sustainable Community Development. She holds a Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of Kentucky. Her interests lie in the intersection between sustainability and health, with an emphasis on food and nutrition. She is currently involved with a collaborative research group concerned with community food security in BC. She served as a researcher and project manager on a Food System Assessment for the City of Vancouver and is currently conducting similar assessments in other parts of the Lower Mainland. Christiana also serves as project coordinator on a project funded by Environment Canada to increase the amount of local food consumed on SFU’s Burnaby campus and is part of a team investigating the Good Food Box Programme. In addition, she is involved with projects that examine the role of maternal health care in the sustainability of rural communities. Christiana has recently been appointed to sit on the Vancouver Food Policy Council and is on the Board of the Coquitlam Farmers Market.

Her skills include qualitative research methods (focus groups, interviews and participant observation), social network analysis, policy analysis, participatory research methods and evaluation, strategic planning, data analysis and presentation, and social marketing methods.

Dr. Miewald has published articles on issues related to Native American health and food security, the effects of welfare reform on women’s access to education in the US, and the implications of economic restructuring for gender roles.