Rate My Professor Anett Nyaradi

Associate Professor Anett Nyaradi serves in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University, holding the position of Domain Lead for Health Advocacy within Curtin Medical School. She possesses an MD, a Master of Public Health from Curtin University (2009-2010), a PhD in Nutrition from the University of Western Australia (2011-2014), a Graduate Certificate in Health Professions Education from the University of Western Australia (2015-2016), and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Her career includes roles as a tutor in clinical debriefing at the University of Notre Dame Australia in 2014 and as a sessional academic at the University of Western Australia. With over 15 years of experience as a teaching academic and medical educator, she has contributed to higher education teaching, epidemiology, and child development research.

Anett Nyaradi's early research investigated the role of nutrition in children's neurocognitive development from pregnancy through childhood, utilizing the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study. Notable publications from this period include 'The Role of Nutrition in Children's Neurocognitive Development, from Pregnancy Through Childhood' (Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013), 'Diet in the early years of life influences cognitive outcomes at 10 years: A prospective cohort study' (Acta Paediatrica, 2013), 'Prospective associations between dietary patterns and cognitive performance during adolescence' (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2014), 'The Relationship between Nutrition in Infancy and Cognitive Performance during Adolescence' (Frontiers in Nutrition, 2015), and 'A Western Dietary Pattern Is Associated with Poor Academic Performance in Australian Adolescents' (Nutrients, 2015). Her recent scholarship addresses rural health identity formation, transformative short rural immersion programs for health professional students, and medical students' online learning experiences with ADHD. Key recent works are 'Rural identity formation: It is time to stop “admiring” the problem and design for change' (Medical Education, 2025), 'Stepping into Country: How a Short Rural Immersion Transforms Medical Students' Perspectives' (Australian and International Journal of Rural Education, 2025), and 'Beyond the classroom: The transformative experience of short rural immersion programs for health professional students: A narrative review' (Medical Education, 2025). Her skills encompass human nutrition, cognitive development, diet quality, micronutrients, and medical health profession education.