{"id":2661,"date":"2025-09-17T15:06:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T05:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webdev.sydney.edu.au\/kolling\/research-group\/global-alliance-for-musculoskeletal-health\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T10:05:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T00:05:28","slug":"global-alliance-for-musculoskeletal-health","status":"publish","type":"research-group","link":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/research-group\/global-alliance-for-musculoskeletal-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Alliance for Musculoskeletal Health"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-07579d57 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:80%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-white-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">\n<div style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;--etb-a-tab-btn-bg-color:#007ed5;--etb-a-tab-btn-text-color:#FBFAF3;--etb-a-tab-btn-heading-color:#FFFFFF;--etb-a-tab-image-filter:none;--etb-a-tab-bt-style:none;--etb-a-tab-bt-width:0px;--etb-a-tab-br-style:none;--etb-a-tab-br-width:0px;--etb-a-tab-bb-style:none;--etb-a-tab-bb-width:0px;--etb-a-tab-bl-style:none;--etb-a-tab-bl-width:0px;--etb-h-tab-btn-bg-color:color-mix(in srgb, currentColor 20%, transparent);--etb-h-tab-btn-text-color:#FBFAF3;--etb-h-tab-image-filter:none;--etb-h-tab-bb-color:#ab40a1;--etb-h-tab-bb-width:2px\" class=\"wp-block-easy-tabs-block-tabs has-active-etb-bg-color has-active-etb-text-color has-active-etb-heading-color has-active-etb-border has-active-etb-duotone has-hover-etb-bg-color has-hover-etb-text-color has-hover-etb-border  false\" data-id=\"15dcc441-9734-467a-b5cc-e31f82dca9f0\" data-initial-tab=\"1\" data-trigger=\"mouseover\" data-accessibility=\"true\"><div class=\"wp-block-easy-tabs-block-tabs-inner is-layout-flow wp-block-easy-tabs-block-tabs-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"etb-tabs-buttons-scrollable-with-arrows wp-container-content-9cfa9a5a\"><div class=\"wp-block-easy-tabs-block-tab-buttons has-etb-buttons-scrollable has-small-font-size is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-easy-tabs-block-tab-buttons-is-layout-1a549490 wp-block-easy-tabs-block-tab-buttons-is-layout-flex\" style=\"border-bottom-color:var(--wp--preset--color--accent-6);border-bottom-width:1px;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\" data-selector=\"15dcc441-9734-467a-b5cc-e31f82dca9f0\" role=\"tablist\">\n<button class=\"wp-block-easy-tabs-block-tab-button has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-29bc920b546c3ab7d32a99fcb9dae9d4\" style=\"color:#101827\" data-selector=\"15dcc441-9734-467a-b5cc-e31f82dca9f0\" id=\"4e2e1331-aeba-43aa-9a7c-07a74e2c1017\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"false\" aria-controls=\"tab-4e2e1331-aeba-43aa-9a7c-07a74e2c1017\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-ff56fb5b180573e3245b4ec13836c990\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0\">About us<\/h2>\n<\/button>\n\n\n\n<button class=\"wp-block-easy-tabs-block-tab-button has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-dcc3457aeecf2e9ca09c8535d583598f\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 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It has a network of people and organisations promoting initiatives in all parts of the world<strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Its home office is located within the Department of Rheumatology, Institute of Bone &amp; Joint Research.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our vision is a society where prevention, treatment and care for people with musculoskeletal disorders is of a high standard and consistently accessible, giving people the freedom to move without pain and independently.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our objective is to raise awareness of the importance of musculoskeletal conditions at a global, regional and national level.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Global Alliance for Musculoskeletal Health is calling for governments, health policy makers and the World Health Organisation to prioritise the prevention and treatment of musculoskeletal conditions and injuries. It would like to see the following issues addressed:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Promotion of a lifestyle that will optimise musculoskeletal health at all ages&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Prevention of musculoskeletal disorders and injuries&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Identification and treatment for those at highest risk&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Accessible, timely, safe, appropriate treatment to control symptoms and prevent unnecessary disability&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Accessible and appropriate rehabilitation to reduce any disability, including self-management&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Equity for all sectors of society&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Support for people to be economically independent&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p 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Damian Hoy\">                <div class=\"team-member-content\">\n                                        \n                    <h3>\n                                                    Dr Damian Hoy                                            <\/h3>\n                    \n                    <div class=\"team-content\">\n                        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Co-leader Global Musculoskeletal Surveillance Taskforce<\/p>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-easy-tabs-block-tab-content etb-animation-fade\" data-selector=\"15dcc441-9734-467a-b5cc-e31f82dca9f0\" id=\"tab-1fb17064-c4f9-417c-9167-cad2cd809405\" aria-labelledby=\"1fb17064-c4f9-417c-9167-cad2cd809405\" role=\"tabpanel\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-contrast-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-231aa2a73c603e8a55c7cd60cb02dc8c\">Research to support global health system strengthening for musculoskeletal health&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Global Alliance for Musculoskeletal Health works in partnership with an international project team to improve population-level musculoskeletal health. Musculoskeletal health includes musculoskeletal conditions, musculoskeletal pain and musculoskeletal injury and trauma.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An in-depth qualitative study has been completed with international informants from 20 countries to understand the priorities and opportunities for health system strengthening in musculoskeletal health. Concurrently, a scoping review continues to provide a contemporary snapshot of current international policy trends, directions and priorities. These two components of work have informed an international Delphi study.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project team includes Professor Andrew Briggs (project lead, Curtin University); Professor Lyn March, Dr Carmen Huckel Schneider, Swatee Mishrra, Sarika Parambath from University of Sydney; Professor Helen Slater, Curtin University; Professor Deborah Kopansky-Giles and Dr James Young, Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College; and Asst Professor Saurab Sharma, Kathmandu University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project was awarded grant funding from the Bone and Joint Decade Foundation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-easy-tabs-block-tab-content etb-animation-fade\" data-selector=\"15dcc441-9734-467a-b5cc-e31f82dca9f0\" id=\"tab-b1aa5fd3-9feb-475f-b0d4-e7aa2d858c1f\" aria-labelledby=\"b1aa5fd3-9feb-475f-b0d4-e7aa2d858c1f\" role=\"tabpanel\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Global Alliance for Musculoskeletal Health Executive:<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prof Anthony Woolf<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Honorary Professor of Rheumatology, University of Exeter Medical School, UK<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prof Deborah Kopansky-Giles<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prof Karsten Dreinhofer<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Charit\u00e9 Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Berlin, Germany<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":416,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2661","research-group","type-research-group","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":{"team_leads":[3202],"team_members":[3395,3775]},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/root_Banners_Raymond-Purves.jpg",2000,590,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/root_Banners_Raymond-Purves-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/root_Banners_Raymond-Purves-300x89.jpg",300,89,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/root_Banners_Raymond-Purves-768x227.jpg",768,227,true],"large":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/root_Banners_Raymond-Purves-1024x302.jpg",1024,302,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/root_Banners_Raymond-Purves-1536x453.jpg",1536,453,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/root_Banners_Raymond-Purves.jpg",2000,590,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"ict-wordpress-support@sydney.edu.au","author_link":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/author\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-group\/2661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-group"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/research-group"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-group\/2661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6744,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-group\/2661\/revisions\/6744"}],"acf:post":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-members\/3775"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-members\/3395"},{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-members\/3202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kollinginstitute.org.au\/news_demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}