Dr. Elizabeth Nethery RM, PhD


Postdoctoral Fellow

School of Population and Public Health

University of British Columbia

Applied (Clinical and Engineering Applications)

Dr. Elizabeth Nethery is a post-doctoral research fellow and perinatal epidemiologist with a broad interest in the impacts of research evidence on clinical practice. She received her PhD from School of Population and Public Health at UBC and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research at UBC. She is also a Registered Midwife (non-practicing) in BC, Canada.

She was recently awarded a Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research and BC Children’s Hospital Research Institute (partnered) Postdoctoral Fellowship for her upcoming study to evaluate costs and outcomes from collaborative and team-based infant and postpartum care in British Columbia. Her current research uses quantitative analytic tools to study model of care, perinatal and reproductive health and, most recently, changes in antenatal screening practices and diagnosis for gestational diabetes.


Area of Research Expertise
Pregnancy, reproductive health, newborn health, diabetes in pregnancy, epidemiology

First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that the UBC Point Grey campus is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people.


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