

The 2nd edition of the book has also been translated into Mandarin and published by The People’s Medical Publishing House, China in 2018. The book she co-authored with colleagues entitled ‘Project management in health and community services: getting good ideas to work’ has been adopted as a textbook by majority of the Master of Health Administration Programs in Australia. In addition to the outstanding management competency research strength, Dr Liang also has expertise and extensive experience in teaching and researching in the areas of evidence-informed decision-making, health management workforce development, healthcare quality and safety, and program planning and evaluation.

Dr Liang has been working with partners in China, Thailand and Iran to develop the capacity in health service management training, education and research in these countries.Īs President of the Society for Health Administration Programs in Education, Dr Liang has played a leading role in shaping the health service management training and development in Asia Pacific. The MCAP Tool can assess the competence of middle and senior level managers working in the health sector and provide evidence to guide the direction of management training and development. Dr Liang joined James Cook University at the beginning of 2021 and established the JCU Health Management Group in early 2022 with a vision of providing targeted and effective management training to health managers and developing health management research capacity in Northern QLD and Asia Pacific ĭr Liang is a leading researcher in health service management competency studies and the leader of the Management Competency Assessment Partnership (MCAP) Program, which has resulted in the development and validation of an evidence-based Managerial Competency Assessment Tool.
