Rate My Professor Rajshri Roy

Dr. Rajshri Roy serves as Senior Lecturer in Dietetics and an Accredited Practising Dietitian within the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Sydney, part of the Faculty of Medicine and Health. She earned her PhD from the University of Sydney at the Charles Perkins Centre between 2013 and 2016, along with a BSc (Hons I) and holds registrations as a New Zealand Registered Dietitian (NZRD) and Australian Accredited Practising Dietitian (APD). Previously, she was a Senior Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Auckland's School of Medical Sciences. At Sydney, Roy manages the Community and Public Health Nutrition Domain in the Master of Nutrition and Dietetics program and supervises research students across undergraduate, honours, master's, and PhD levels, including current doctoral candidates.

Rajshri Roy's research specializations encompass nutrition and dietetics, with emphasis on food environments, digital health, social media interventions for dietary behavior change, and public health nutrition. Key publications include 'Food Environment Interventions to Improve the Dietary Intakes of Young Adults Aged 18–35 Years Living with Young Families: A Systematic Review' (2015, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics), 'Electronic Dietary Intake Assessment (e-DIA): Relative Validity of a Mobile Phone Application to Measure Intake of Food Groups' (2016, British Journal of Nutrition), 'The Effect of Energy Labelling on Menus and a Social Marketing Message on Restaurant Lunch Choices of Young Adults' (2016, BMC Public Health), and 'Using Mobile Ecological Momentary Assessment to Understand Daily and Monthly Patterns of Dietary Intake among Adolescents' (2023, JMIR mHealth and uHealth). Her work has garnered over 2,260 citations on Google Scholar. Roy has obtained funding including EMCR Seed and Travel Funding in 2024 for 'Co-designing a heart healthy social media health promotion with young adults' and University of Sydney Strategic Education Funding. She holds leadership roles as Co-Chair of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Digital Health Early-Career Researcher Community, serving over 600 members, and Project Node Co-Leader in Wireless Wellbeing and Personalised Health. Additionally, she received a Dean's Citation for Education Champions.