Disaster Rehabilitation SIG

Save the Date: Monday 19 February 2024
Topic: Rehabilitation in Emergency Medical - AUSMAT's experience
Speaker: Erica Bleakley, National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre (NCCTRC)
Time: 5.30pm (AEDT)
Venue: zoom - link to be distributed closer to the event

About the speaker:
Erica is an Occupational Therapist with clinical experience and post-graduate qualifications in burn and trauma rehabilitation and public health. She is the Allied Health & Rehabilitation Coordinator at the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre (NCCTRC), and is responsible for the development and coordination of the Australian Medical Assistance Team’s (AUSMAT) 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 professional experience includes over 10 years at the Royal Darwin Hospital, multiple health emergency response deployments with AUSMAT, including to Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Timor-Leste and the Solomon Islands, and humanitarian missions to Yemen and Ukraine with international NGO, Humanity and Inclusion. Erica represents the NCCTRC in the World Rehabilitation Alliance's emergencies workstream, amongst other global technical working groups.