The Institute for Musculoskeletal Health is proud to celebrate an outstanding achievement at the 2026 Sydney Excellence Awards, with four of our projects recognised for their innovation, impact and commitment to improving healthcare. From advancing patient safety and transforming emergency care to embedding physical activity into routine healthcare and reimagining fracture management, these projects demonstrate the breadth and quality of research and implementation led by our

A multi-institutional team led by Prof Cathie Sherrington, A/Prof Bernadette Brady and Dr Rik Dawson has secured MRFF funding to adapt and implement the co-designed TOP UP program for older people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities, in partnership with local community service providers. The project TOP UP provides telehealth sessions with a physiotherapists for older people looking to increase their physical activity, improve their mobility, and reduce the

Picture: Charlotte McLennan and Min Jiat Teng At the IMH, we work hand-in-hand with health service managers and commissioners, clinicians, patients and people with lived experience to optimise musculoskeletal health and physical activity. This commitment was recognised this week when members of our team received the Inclusivity and Consumer Partnership in Clinical Trials Award at the SLHD International Clinical Trials Day. The award celebrates the team’s work embedding consum

Congratulations to Gemma Altinger (PhD Candidate), Dr Sweekriti Sharma and Dr Priti Kharel who won presentation awards at this year’s Wiser Healthcare 2025 Meeting. Gemma was winner of the inaugural Prof Alexandra Barratt Persistence for the Most Difficult Publication Award for a recently published PhD paper in JAMA Network Open . Sweekriti was winner of the Best ECR Publication Award (Quantitative category) for her pitch on an RCT paper published in JAMA Network Open . Priti

Falls are the leading cause of injury-related hospitalisations among older Australians, yet New South Wales has no coordinated prevention strategy. The 2023 NSW Falls Prevention White Paper, supported by the Clinical Excellence Commission, highlighted this gap and called for a systems-level response to address the fragmentation of falls prevention efforts. Dr Marina Pinheiro and team have been awarded an Australian Public Policy Institute (APPI) Policy Challenge Grant to tran

Institute for Musculoskeletal Health researchers secure over $2 million in MRFF funding to boost physical activity in people with intellectual disability and improve chronic pain management in people with chronic low back pain and opioid-managed chronic pain.

Ana Helena Salles Dos Reis, PhD Candidate, presenting on the GACD grant, September 2025 An exciting new international research...

Congratulations to A/Prof Gustavo Machado who has been selected for the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (AAHMS)...