Erica Burton

Senior Policy Advisor (Consultant)

RN, BScN, MPH, CGNC 

Erica is a Registered Nurse and Certified Global Nurse Consultant with over 15 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 led and contributed to numerous critical pieces of work and initiatives spanning 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. Erica has led ICN’s activities and delegation to the WHO’s World Health Assembly since 2016 and served as the lead in establishing ICN’s inaugural student and early career nurse body - The ICN Alliance of Student and Early Career Nurses.

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.