Erica Liebermann PhD, MSN, WHNP-BC, ANP-BC, RN

Biography

Dr. Erica Liebermann is a nationally and globally recognized nurse practitioner and health services researcher specializing in women’s health and cancer prevention. Fluent in multiple languages, she brings extensive clinical and research experience across the United States and global settings. Her work centers on nurse-led and other innovative strategies to expand access to preventive care, particularly Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination, cervical cancer screening, and breast cancer early detection, among marginalized populations and in low- and middle-income countries.

As a Betty Irene Moore Fellow for Nurse Leaders and Innovators, Dr. Liebermann is piloting a nurse-led, community health worker-delivered intervention introducing HPV self-collection for cervical cancer screening in Rhode Island. Globally, she collaborates to strengthen nursing and health workforce capacity for cervical cancer prevention and treatment, advancing nurse leadership in cervical cancer elimination efforts.

A committed advocate for health equity, Dr. Liebermann serves on the Lancet Commission on Women, Power, and Cancer, and the American Cancer Society’s National Cervical Cancer Roundtable. Locally, she chairs the Prevention, Screening, and Early Detection Workgroup for the Partnership to Reduce Cancer in Rhode Island. Her goal is to build community- and gender-responsive health systems that foster connection to care, improve health literacy, reduce preventable disease and improve health for all.

Research

Global women’s health, cancer prevention, health services research, implementation science, cancer health equity

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship, NYU School of Medicine

PhD, Nursing, New York University

MSN, Nursing, MGH Institute of Health Professions

BSN, Nursing, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

BA, Sociology, Georgetown University

Selected Publications

Coad, S., Liebermann, E.J., Zimet, G.D., Fontenot, H.B. (2025) Does changing the routinely recommended age for HPV vaccination impact parental thoughts about vaccinating their adolescent: A mixed-methods analysis. Vaccine, 71: 128080. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2025.128080

Liebermann, E., Si, B., Hutchinson, M.K., Li, B., Sutherland, M.A. (2025) Influences on College Health Provider Practice for Routinely Screening Female College Students’ HPV Vaccination Status. BMC Public Health 25, 2099. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-23234-w

Heys, D., Liebermann, E., Fontenot, H.B. (2025) In-Clinic Self-Swab for Human Papillomavirus Offers New Option for Cervical Cancer Screening. Nursing for Women’s Health 29(4):264-268. doi: 10.1016/j.nwh.2025.02.004. Epub 2025 Jun 16.

Liebermann, E. Patwardhan, V., Usmanova, G., Aktar, N., Agrawal, S., Bhamare, P., McCarthy, M., Ginsburg, O, Kumar, S. (2024) Barriers to Follow-up of an Abnormal Clinical Breast Exam in Uttar Pradesh, India: A Qualitative Study. JCO Global Oncology 10:e2400001. https://doi.org/10.1200/GO.24.00001

Ginsburg, O., Vanderpuye, V., Beddoe, AM., Bhoo-Pathy, N., Bray, F., Caduff, C., Florez, N., Fadhil, I., Hammad, N., Heidari, S., Kataria, I., Kumar, S., Liebermann, E., Moodley, J., Mutebi, M., Mukherji, D., Nugent, R., So, WKW., Soto-Perez-de-Celis, E., Unger-Saldaña, K., Allman, G., Bhimani, J., Bourlon, MT., Eala, MAB., Hovmand, PS., Kong, Y-C., Menon, S., Taylor, CD., Soerjomataram, I. (2023) Women, power, and cancer: a Lancet Commission. The Lancet. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01701-4.

A full list of publications can be found here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/erica.liebermann.2/bibliography/public/