Prof. Dr. Amie Steel

Dr Amie Steel is a Professor in Public Health and leads the Australian Research Consortium in Complementary and Integrative Medicine within the National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine at Southern Cross University. She is also an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and served as the research lead for the World Health Organization’s Global Research Priority Setting Exercise in Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine (TCIM). With over 300 scholarly publications, her research explores the integration, regulation, and practice of traditional medicine within contemporary health systems. Her work spans women’s health—particularly fertility, pregnancy, and preconception care—as well as the interface between evidence-based medicine and traditional health practices. Methodologically, she specializes in mixed methods research, implementation science, knowledge mobilisation, and pragmatic clinical trials within applied health services research.