Rachel Rossiter

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Associate Professor Rachel Rossiter

Grad.Cert. Practice of Tertiary Teaching; Doctor of Health Science (HScD); MN (NP); M Couns; B.Couns; BHlthSc(Nursing)

Associate Professor in Medical Research
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Building 1008, Room 240

Associate Professor Rachel Rossiter is an experienced academic and researcher. She is passionate about addressing the health inequities impacting on our rural and remote communities and thus, her focus has included building health professional capacity for advanced practice and research in a range of different contexts.  Her work is informed by clinical experiences across several decades, including primary health care in Madagascar and the Solomon Islands and clinical, teaching and research experience in public health, primary health care and mental health settings in urban and rural areas of NSW. Research activities in Australia, Thailand, Egypt, East Africa, and the UAE have incorporated capacity building activities in cross-cultural settings, health promotion and early intervention, mental health literacy and mental health workforce development. Rachel has joined the Research team with the School of Rural Medicine to support research capacity building activities.

Rachel has extensive experience in curriculum design, subject and course development at several universities, including University of Newcastle, University of Sharjah, and now at Charles Sturt University. Her current focus is on further developing teaching materials for students undertaking MD projects.

Since 2017, Rachel has led a series of collaborative research projects focused on developing and evaluating specialist Movement Disorder Nurse positions in rural and regional New South Wales. She continues to support further research in this area with researchers from the Mid-North Coast Local Health District, Westmead Hospital. Parkinson’s NSW and the School of Nursing, Paramedicine and Healthcare Sciences.

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Australian College of Mental Nurses ACMHN – Fellow

  • Credentialed mental health nurse (CMHN)

Australian College of Primary Health Care Nurses (APNA) - Member