Dr. Stephen Bornstein completed his M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University in Political Science and has an Honours B.A. from the University of Toronto.
He is currently Co-Director of SafetyNet, Co-Project Leader on SafetyNet project 1c: SafeCatch, and Principal Investigator on SafetyNet project 2b: Occupational Health in Petroleum Refining. Dr. Bornstein has been the Director of the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research since the Centre's establishment in 1999.
Throughout his career, his research has followed two separate but related tracks: comparative labour relations and the analysis of public policy. Recently, these two interests have converged in a focus on health policy and on workplace health and safety issues. Bornstein's academic career began in 1979 at McGill University in Montreal. He held various positions including Associate Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, from 1990 to 1991 and Associate Professor of Political Science from 1996 to 1999. He has also held the position of Professor of Political Science and Professor of Medicine (Health Policy) at Memorial University in Newfoundland. Bornstein also served as Assistant Deputy Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs in the Government of Ontario and Ontario Representative to Quebec.