Faculty and Staff

Catherine Liao is a nurse, educator, and global health researcher with more than a decade of experience in global health and international development. Catherine brings 24 years of nursing experience across the United Kingdom, West Africa, and Canada as a frontline critical care nurse, healthcare leader, and nurse educator, including teaching in nursing education programs.

At UFV, she is Project Manager for International Development, leading a Global Affairs Canada–funded project in Sierra Leone. As a Research Associate with JESA at UFV, she collaborates with partners in Ghana and co-leads research projects with them. She is also Director of Resurge Africa, a medical charity strengthening health systems in West Africa through burns care capacity building. She has also collaborated on research in British Columbia, Nepal and Bangladesh and with Indigenous communities in British Columbia.  Catherine holds a PhD in Nursing from the University of British Columbia. She is interested in examining the equity and responsiveness of health systems in low-resource settings, at the intersections of gender, violence, and disability. She is committed to knowledge mobilization that puts evidence into the hands of communities, practitioners, and policymakers. In the classroom, she draws on her clinical, leadership, and professional experience to help students connect global development theory with the realities of health and community life worldwide.

PhD, Nursing, University of British Columbia
MSc, Advance Practice Neuroscience Care, King's College London
BSc (Hons), Nursing, Kingston University, United Kingdom