Dr Miriam van den Berg is a research fellow at the Stretton Health Equity, which is in the School of Public Health.
 
Her research interests encompass work and employment as a social determinant of health and health equity. She has a particular interest in precarious employment conditions including informal labour and platform work, and its implications for worker health and wellbeing.
 
Miriam's other research interests include housing as a social determinant of health, suicide prevention and healthy equity in policy.
 
She has also worked as a public health consultant for over 15 years, working on a range of research, evaluation, policy and advocacy projects for many government and non-government organisations in Tasmania, as well as the World Health Organisation. Miriam has previously worked for Flinders University and the University of Tasmania.