Remo is Senior Research Fellow at the Rural Clinical School in the Australian National University’s School of Medicine and Psychology. He graduated with a PhD in Psychology (Psychometric methods) and a Graduate minor in bioethics from the University of Minnesota in 2001.

Remo comes to the ANU with 20 years’ experience in measuring human behaviour, with much of that experience in health behaviours. This behavioural focus on health includes research in health literacy that goes beyond the cognitive capacity focus of much of that research to look at how people interact with health information environments to meet their health needs.

His health literacy work is part of a broader thread in his work of addressing health inequality in health contexts. Most recently this work has involved investigating issues associated with rural medical workforce development, including the landmark Building a Rural Physician Workforce project.

Remo’s research typically involves deriving meaning from numbers in health and behavioural contexts, which he does using psychometric methods and multivariate statistics. In past work he has applied these skills to improve understanding of the psychology of morality; medication prescribing; population health needs; and place-based health.

PhD (Psychology), Minnesota

Rural Medical Workforce

Health Literacy

Health Behaviours

Social Determninants of Health

Social Medicine

Psychometric Methods