Dr Liang has spent the last decade researching/teaching in management competency, evidence-informed decision-making, health management workforce development, healthcare quality and safety, and program planning and evaluation. Prior to becoming an academic, she worked in diverse roles as a medical practitioner, planning and evaluation consultant and senior health manager. Dr Liang has been 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. 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. In the past three years, Dr Liang has been working with partners in China, Thailand and Iran to develop their capacity in health service management training, education and research. As 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. She is leading a team of academics and researchers across Universities in the development of two interrelated projects that evaluate the short-term and long-term impact of the tertiary educational programs in health service management in Australasia and the UK in order to inform the improvement of the curriculum of the existing programs.