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 was winner of...

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 transform falls...

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.