- Assistant Professor
- College of Nursing
- Phone: 401.874.5576
- Email: eliebermann@uri.edu
Biography
Dr. Erica Liebermann is an Adult/Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner with more than 19 years of clinical practice experience and also has been an international clinical consultant for capacity building in cervical cancer prevention in several countries in Latin America and Africa. Dr. Liebermann received her PhD from New York University Rory Meyers of College of Nursing; her dissertation study in the Dominican Republic examined provider-level barriers and facilitators to adoption of HPV testing for cervical cancer screening. Dr. Liebermann completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Population Health Sciences at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.
Dr. Liebermann’s clinical work and research are driven by a desire to advance the health of women and girls throughout the world, through promoting equitable access to high quality health care. Dr. Liebermann’s research uses implementation science and mixed methods approaches to understand multi-level (patient, provider, health system) barriers to adoption and scale-up of evidence-based interventions for breast and cervical cancer early detection in low- and middle-income countries, with the aim of helping design women-centered, resource-appropriate strategies that improve delivery of and access to preventive women’s health services.
Dr. Liebermann is currently a commissioner on the Lancet Commission on Women and Cancer. She was the recipient of an NYU Outstanding Dissertation Award and the NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing Distinguished Student Award. She is a member of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, Nurse Practitioners in Women’s Health, American Public Health Association, Academy Health, American Society for Colposcopy and Clinical Pathology and the Eastern Nursing Research Society.
Research
Global women’s health, health services research, implementation science, cancer health equity research
Education
PhD, Nursing, New York University
MSN, Nursing, MGH Institute of Health Professions
BSN, Nursing, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
BA, Sociology, Georgetown University
Selected Publications
Liebermann E, Devanter NV, Frías Gúzman N, Ompad D, Shirazian T, Healton C. Parent-Level Barriers and Facilitators to HPV Vaccine Implementation in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. (2020), J Community Health, 45(5), 1061-1066. doi:10.1007/s10900-020-00830-y
Liebermann E, Van Devanter N, Frías Gúzman N, Hammer MJ. (2020). Ompad D. Dominican Provider Attitudes Towards HPV Testing for Cervical Cancer Screening and Current Challenges to Cervical Cancer Prevention in the Dominican Republic: a Mixed Methods Study, J Canc Educ. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-020-01746-w, published online April 2020
Liebermann, E.J., Hammer, M., Frías Gúzman, N., Van Devanter, N., Ompad, D. (2021). Dominican Provider Practices for Cervical Cancer Screening in Santo Domingo and Monte Plata Provinces, J Canc Educ 36(4): 693-701. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13187-020-01690-9
Dalton, M., Holzman, E., Erwin, E., Michelen, S., Rositch, A.F., Kumar, S., Vanderpuye, V., Yeates, K., Liebermann, E.J., Ginsburg, O. (Oct 2019). Patient Navigation Services for Cancer Care in Low-and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review, PLOS ONE 14(10), e0223537. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223537
Liebermann, E., Van Devanter, N., Shirazian, T., Frias Guzman, N., Niles, M., Healton, C., Ompad, D. (2020). Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening and Treatment in the Dominican Republic: Perspectives of Focus Group Participants in the Santo Domingo Area. Journal of Transcultural Nursing 31(2), 121-127. https://doi.org/10.1177/1043659619846247
Liebermann, E, Van Devanter, N, Hammer, Fu, M. (2018). Social and cultural barriers to women’s participation in pap smear screening programs in low- and middle-Income Latin American and Caribbean countries: an integrative review. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 29(6), 591-602. https://doi.org/10.1177/104365918755424