Dr. Heather Baid
Associate Teaching Professor
School of Nursing
- Contact:
- Office: HSD B204 heatherbaid@uvic.ca 250-721-6523
- Credentials:
- RN, BSN, MSc, PhD
- Area(s) of expertise:
- Intensive care and acute care nursing, sustainable health care, planetary health and nursing, human factors, simulation-based education
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Biography
Dr. Heather Baid is a registered nurse who joined the University of Victoria in January 2026 as an Associate Teaching Professor. Heather completed nursing and intensive care education in Canada and began her career in Vancouver hospitals before moving to England in 2002, where she completed an MSc and PhD. She first worked as a clinical nurse in Brighton, England, before moving into an academic role in 2007.
Her professional interests include acute and critical care, human factors, simulation, and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals' relevance to global health and healthcare delivery. Heather has partnered in education, research, quality improvement, and events focused on environmentally sustainable and resilient clinical practice that is financially affordable and socially responsible, while maintaining safe, high-quality, patient-centred care.
See ORCiD or Google Scholar for full list of publications
Selected journal article publications
1. Alvarez-Rodríguez J, Fotis T, Tomsett B, Baid H. Sustainable assessment in digital health interventions for primary care: A scoping review. Journal of Public Health Research. 2026;15(1):22799036251407196. https://doi.org/10.1177/22799036251407196
2. Iliopoulou K, Leone M, Hunfeld N, Ferrer R, Baid H, Ostermann M, et al. Environmental sustainability in intensive care: An international survey of intensive care professionals’ views, practices and proposals to the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine. Journal of Critical Care. 2025;88:155079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrc.2025.155079
3. Smale E, Baid H, Balan M, McGain F, McAlistar S, de Waele JJ, et al. The green ICU: how to interpret green? A multiple perspective approach. Critical Care. 2025;29(80). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-025-05316-8
4. Baid H, Sundberg F. Environmentally sustainable critical care: Special issue introduction. Nursing in Critical Care. 2025;30(1):3–5. https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.13251
5. De Waele JJ, Hunfeld N, Baid H, Ferrer R, Katerina Iliopoulou, Ana-Maria Ioan, et al. Environmental sustainability in intensive care: the path forward. An ESICM Green Paper. Intensive Care Medicine. 2024;50(11):1729–1739. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-024-07662-7
6. Baid H, Damm E, Trent L, McGain F. Towards net zero: critical care. BMJ. 2023;381:e069044. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2021-069044
7. Baid H, Holland J, Pirro F. Environmentally sustainable orthopaedics and trauma: systems and behaviour change. Orthopaedics and Trauma. 2022; 36(5):256-264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mporth.2022.07.002
8. Álvarez-Nieto C, Richardson J, Navarro-Perán MÁ, Tutticci N, Huss N, Elf M, Anna Anåker A, Aronsson J, Baid H, López-Medina IM. Nursing students’ attitudes towards climate change and sustainability: A cross-sectional multisite study. Nurse Education Today. 2022;108:105185. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2021.105185
9. Della Torre V, Nacul F, Rosseel P, Baid H, Bhowmick K, Szawarski P, et al. Human factors and ergonomics to improve performance in intensive care units during the COVID-19 pandemic. Anaesthesiology Intensive Therapy. 2021;53(3):265–270. https://doi.org/10.5114/ait.2021.105760
10. Baid H, Richardson J, Scholes J, Hebron C. Sustainability in critical care practice: A grounded theory study. Nursing in Critical Care. 2021;26(1):20-27. https://doi.org/10.1111/nicc.12493
Selected book publications
1. Baid H, Creed F, Hargreaves J. Oxford handbook of critical care nursing. 2nd ed. Oxford University Press; 2016. https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198701071.001.0001
2. Baid H. Fluid assessment and associated treatment. In: Creed F, Spiers C, editors. Care of the Acutely Ill Adult, 2nd ed. Oxford University Press; 2020. p. 195-224. https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198793458.003.0007
3. Baid H. Engaging in grounded theory research as a doctoral student. In: Aranda K, editor. Critical Qualitative Health Research. Routledge; 2020.
4. Mills J, Baid H, Taylor A, Wiseman T. Sustainable development within health and social care education. Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning. 2020 Jun 19;20:143–56. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2055-364120200000020016
5. Baid H, Astle B. Nursing ethics and the planetary health crisis. In: Gallagher A, Suhonen R, Morley G, Monteverde S, Peter E, Sperling D, Jago R, editors. Routledge Handbook of Nursing Ethics. Routledge; In Press.
2024 – £98,125 Competition 24 - Delivering a Net Zero NHS for a Healthier Future: Innovation fund from SBRI Healthcare to develop the Intensive Care Environmental Sustainability Recipe Book with national dissemination in the United Kingdom.
2022 – £8,000 University of Brighton fund for the Addressing healthcare waste through participatory research project.
2021 – £1000 British Association of Critical Care Nurses research grant for the GREEN-ICU project (GREater Environmental Sustainability In Intensive Care Units).
2020 – £10,000 University of Brighton Rising Stars Award for the GREEN-ICU project.