Heather Stuart

Stuart grew up in Guelph, Ontario, where she spent most of her days with her administrator mother at a mental hospital.^[1] She earned her Bachelor of Arts and Master's degree in Sociology at University of Western Ontario, before graduating with a PhD in epidemiology at the University of Calgary.^[2]

After graduating from the University of Calgary, Stuart earned a position with the World Psychiatric Association to start a program that focused on dealing with the prejudice attached to schizophrenia. She then returned to Calgary, where she became an associate professor before leaving for Queen's University.^[2]

In 2012, she was appointed the inaugural Bell Canada Mental Health and Anti-Stigma Research Chair.^[3] Stuart also chaired the World Psychiatric Association's Scientific Section on Stigma and Mental Health.^[4] By 2015, she helped launch the "Caring Campus Project" which aimed to reducing substance misuse amongst first-year male students, along with the related stigma.^[5] Two years later, she was reappointed as Bell Canada Mental Health and Anti-Stigma Research Chair for another five years.^[6] The next year, Stuart was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.^[7] She was later appointed a Member of the Order of Canada.^[8]