Ylona Chun Tie

Dr Ylona Chun Tie, Associate Dean, Research Education for the College of Healthcare Sciences. Dr Chun Tie is an experienced registered nurse and senior academic with qualifications in nursing, critical care, health professional education, advanced nursing practice, doctoral research, and corporate governance. Ylona is a Fellow and Life Member of the ACCCN, holds national and international executive board appointments with the World Federation of Critical Care Nurses (WFCCN) and the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN). Ylona is active on a number of state and national committees including the Australian College of Nurses Global Health Faculty,  and chair of the Global Health Advisory Panel (GHAP) for Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society (ANZICS) ANZICS/ACCCN.

Dr Chun Tie is recognised as an expert on cross cultural healthcare, internationally qualified healthcare workforce, with a focus on wellbeing and retention. In addition, Ylona has a special interest in critical care and building leadership capacity in LMICs.   Ylona’s vison is dedicated to work with community to co design resources that will improve the knowledge and capacity of nurse leaders, and particularly those working in low resource setting to deliver safe quality healthcare.  Ylona was an invited speaker and attended the 2024 WFCCN council meeting in Dubai where an MOU was signed with the World Health Organization to work on projects that support the emergency, critical, and operative care initiative to improve patient care in LMICs in these areas. More recently, Ylona was an invited speaker and attended the 2025 WFCCN council meeting in Dubai where an MOU was signed with both ECCC and the WFCCM to improve access and delivery of critical care healthcare to LMIC.

In 2024 Dr Chun Tie represented JCU as an invited panel chair at the PAH seminar, a keynote speaker at  ECCC conference in Dubai and 21st South Pacific Nurses Forum in PNG, and as an invited Plenary speaker IX Congress International de Enfermeria AMEEMCTI conference in Leon, Mexico, to share her understanding of the cultural context of healthcare delivery and to promote international collaboration and research.

Dr Chun Tie is an advisor for HDRs PhD candidates and welcomes cross collaboration between health professions. Dr Chun Tie is a ECR Editorial Advisory Board member of the Journal of Clinical Nursing, and a peer reviewer for several international peer refereed journals and textbooks.

Dr Chun Tie is a recipient of the Dean's Award for Research Higher Degree Excellence.

Dr Chun Tie is a recipient of the JCU 2020 Award for Excellence in the category of Leadership.

Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (2022).

Appointed as a Commissioner for Declarations (2013).

Full member Margaret Roderick Centre for Mental Health Research