Erica Burton

Senior Nurse Advisor (Consultant)

RN, BScN, MPH, GCNC

Erica is a Registered Nurse and Certified Global Nurse Consultant with over 10 years’ 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 served as the Senior Policy Advisor on ICN’s Nursing and Health Policy team from 2015 – 2022. In this role, she 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.

Since April 2022, Erica works as a Consultant to ICN’s Nursing and Health Policy team and continues to lead the work on nursing student engagement, ICN’s Position Statements, and ICN’s delegation to the World Health Organization’s World Health Assembly, which she has led over the past seven years.

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 safer substance use, with a focus on HIV/AIDS and Hep C case management and policy.

Erica holds a Master’s in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.