Professor Rhonda Wilson is an internationally recognised mental health nursing scientist with a research focus on digital health interventions. She is Professor of Mental Health Nursing at University of RMIT University, Australia, where she leads a team of mental health nursing academics delivering a large Master of Mental Health Nursing program in Australia.

Additionally, she leads an innovative digital mental health nursing laboratory, including supervising 13 PhD students. She is a Registered Nurse and a Credentialed Mental Health Nurse in Australia and has worked across various roles as a clinical nurse, researcher and academic in Australia, Denmark and New Zealand over the past 36 years.

As a Wiradjuri descendent, she is a vigorous advocate and activist for the promotion of cultural safety, competence and decolonisation in our education and health institutions.

She has published extensively in international journals, books and conferences. She has a significant volume of grant funding success, and a track record of leading national and international mental health mixed methods research programs, including using methods suited to priority populations, and First Nations peoples. She has a depth of experience in the development and management of funded large-scale multinational digital mental health tailored and implemented studies.

Her clinical service in the early COVID-19 vaccination campaign (2021) was focused on administering vaccinations to large populations of First Nations people in two communities: Walgett in western NSW, Australia on Gomeroi Traditional land; and, Wyong on the Central Coast of NSW, Australia, on Darkinjung Traditional land.