Rate My Professor Nelly Rentta

Rentta's academic interests center on infectious disease surveillance, prevention and management of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, housing and health linkages, meningococcal disease elimination, and environmental health risks such as nitrate and nitrite exposure in drinking water and cancers. She led the authorship of the Aotearoa New Zealand Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Management of Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease: 2024 Update. Key publications include 'Medical Treatment for Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Narrative Review' (Rentta et al., 2022), 'Structured review of primary interventions to reduce group A streptococcal pharyngitis: a systematic review and meta-analysis' (Bennett et al., 2021), 'Are we ready to eliminate invasive meningococcal disease in Aotearoa New Zealand?' (Kvalsvig et al., 2023), and the Cochrane protocol 'Exposure to nitrate and nitrite in drinking water and cancers' (Chambers et al., 2024). Recent conference contributions feature 'A total system review of infectious disease surveillance in Aotearoa New Zealand' at the Infectious Diseases & Pandemic Preparedness Summit (Rentta et al., 2025) and the Communicable Diseases and Immunisation Conference (2025). Through these efforts and participation in Te Niwha-funded projects, Rentta supports advancements in disease surveillance and policy.