Rate My Professor Rimante Ronto

Rimante Ronto is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Public Health within the Department of Health Sciences at Macquarie University, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences. She holds the position of Researcher in Public Health Nutrition and serves as Course Director of the Master of Public Health program. Her research specializations include food literacy, nutrition education, dietary behaviours, food preparation and cooking behaviours, food security, settings-based food environments, sustainable food systems, and sustainable and healthy diets. Ronto's doctoral research focused on the role of food literacy in shaping adolescents’ dietary behaviours. She works collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to increase healthy dietary behaviours among children, adolescents, and young adults through nutrition education, food policy, and food environment modifications. Her current research identifies effective strategies to promote sustainable and healthy dietary behaviours and create sustainable food systems.

Ronto has earned major awards for teaching excellence, including the Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor's Learning and Teaching Early Career Award in 2020 and the Australian Awards for University Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in 2021. She has participated in the Macquarie Food Symposium and holds memberships in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences since 2020, Australian Health Promotion Association since 2018, International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity since 2018, and Nutrition Society of Australia since 2013. Key publications encompass 'Unequal burdens: a scoping review of key social determinants of health affecting wellbeing of international vs. domestic students' (BMC Public Health, 2026), 'Changes in inequalities of mortality and life expectancy by marital status: a case of Lithuania' (BMC Public Health, 2025), 'Integrating Australian native foods for a more sustainable food system: a qualitative co-design study with Aboriginal communities' (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2025), 'An umbrella review of the benefits and risks associated with youths’ interactions with electronic screens' (Nature Human Behaviour, 2024), and 'Co-designing research for sustainable food systems and diets with Aboriginal communities: a study protocol' (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2024). Her scholarship demonstrates substantial impact in public health nutrition.