Rate My Professor Katrina Li

Dr Katrina Li serves as an adjunct lecturer in the School of Allied Health and Human Performance within the College of Health at Adelaide University. She is a lecturer in physiotherapy at UniSA Allied Health and Human Performance, with prior clinical experience as a physiotherapist in public and private settings in Australia and Hong Kong. Li completed her PhD, which explored intergenerational influences on respiratory health in adult children of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Her research specializations include physiotherapy and planetary health, resistance training and its associations with breast cancer risk and mortality, exercise interventions for fatigue in COPD patients and knee osteoarthritis, psychosocial interventions for ovarian cancer survivors, Australian physiotherapists' perspectives on climate change and health, attrition in allied health professions, pain in chronic respiratory diseases, physical activity's impact on lung function, blinding strategies in dry needling trials, comorbidities in pulmonary rehabilitation, and diagnostic accuracy of imaging for acute appendicitis.

Li has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications, including 'Physiotherapy and planetary health: a scoping review' (2025, European Journal of Physiotherapy), 'Unveiling the Exodus: A scoping review of attrition in allied health' (2024, PLOS One), 'Weight training and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality among older adults' (2024, International Journal of Epidemiology), 'Australian physiotherapists' knowledge and views on the relationship between climate change, health, and physiotherapy' (2024, Physiotherapy Research International), 'Resistance training and mortality risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis' (2022, American Journal of Preventive Medicine), 'Comparing the impact of different exercise interventions on fatigue in individuals with COPD: A systematic review and meta-analysis' (2019, Chronic Respiratory Disease), and 'Counseling for health behavior change in people with COPD: Systematic review' (2017, International Journal of COPD). She currently co-supervises doctoral students on projects such as integrating climate change and environmental sustainability into allied health education and the potential of GoPro360 technology in physiotherapy student learning outcomes. Li has received the Physiotherapy Research Foundation Seeding Grant and the Endeavour Research Fellowship. She is eligible to co-supervise Masters and PhD students.