Erica is a public health researcher and educator, and an organisational and ADHD coach. Her research is cross-disciplinary and spans the intersection between environments and human and planetary health, the psychosocial impacts from environmental change, and behaviour and decision-making for health and wellbeing, and experiences of ADHD in complex systems. Her program of research draws on psychological theory and complex systems thinking to explore the intersection of these topic areas to build community and individual resilience for health and wellbeing.

Erica has worked extensively with government and industry partners in the health and planning sectors including Local Health Districts, the NSW Ministry of Health, Health Infrastructure NSW, NSW Department of Planning and Environment, NSW Environmental Protection Agency, and local governments to implement interventions to promote health and wellbeing in unique contexts through partner and stakeholder engagement and collaboration. With extensive expertise in health and wellbeing research, Erica has worked on a range of projects related to environmental change and health. She was a key collaborator in an ISF team that won a research impact award for a transdisciplinary project that informed the Australian National Remediation Framework, and a guideline for stakeholder engagement plans for contaminated sites adopted as best-practice by the NSW Environmental Protection Authority.

Erica is also a member of the UTS Climate Change and Health Research Collaborative within the Research Institute for Innovative Solutions for Well-being and Health (UTS). As an active member of the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) Erica has contributed to policy development including leading their policy position statement on mental health and climate change, and held positions as co-convenor of their Mental Health and Ecology and Environment Special Interest Groups.

As an Adjunt Fellow in the Instiute for Sustainable Futures, she is supervising graduate research students conducting research in the areas of health behaviour, planetary health and healthy eating, impacts of green infrastructure and urban health islands on health, and the impacts of climate change on community health workers.

Erica is currently involved in research projects focused on the the impact of the workplace environment on academics with ADHD, the experience of university students with ADHD and autism, and the experience of women and gender diverse individuals with ADHD and their self-care.