Erica Burton

Senior Policy Advisor (Consultant)

RN, BScN, MPH, Certified Global Nurse Consultant

Erica is a Registered Nurse and Certified Global Nurse Consultant with 14 years of experience in public health, global health and nursing policy and is dedicated to developing and promoting evidence-based, ethical, people-centred global health policy, strategies and care.

Erica has served as the Senior Policy Advisor on ICN’s Nursing and Health Policy team since 2015. In this role, she has worked to develop ICN policy on a wide range of issues including health workforce, climate and health, gender equality, NCDs, communicable disease, and education and worked closely with a variety of stakeholders to provide guidance on nursing and global health challenges. She currently leads the work on student and early career nurse engagement, ICN’s Position Statements, and ICN’s delegation to the World Health Organization’s World Health Assembly.

Erica also works in a clinical capacity, providing primary patient-centred care to people living with and at risk of HIV at a specialty hospital in Toronto, Canada, with a strong focus on social justice, advocacy and harm reduction.

Her past work includes occupational health and as a Public Health Nurse in sexual and reproductive health and harm reduction. Erica holds a master’s in public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.