Erica Bleakley

Erica is an Occupational Therapist who holds a Master of Public Health and has clinical experience and post-graduate qualifications in burn and trauma rehabilitation. She is the Allied Health & Rehabilitation Coordinator at the NCCTRC, and is responsible for the development and coordination of AUSMAT’s rehabilitation capability. Erica is a member of the NCCTRC’s Regional Engagement Program and works to deliver education about rehabilitation in emergencies in the Pacific and Timor-Leste. Erica’s health emergency response experience includes multiple deployments with AUSMAT in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including to Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Timor-Leste and the Solomon Islands, and humanitarian missions to Yemen and Ukraine with an international non-governmental organisation, Humanity and Inclusion.