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Professor Anne Tiedemann is a leading academic in physical activity and health at the Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney. She heads the Healthy Ageing research theme at the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, a collaboration with Sydney Local Health District. Her work focuses on scalable strategies to promote physical activity and prevent falls in older adults, with significant contributions to WHO guidelines. She holds executive roles in the World Falls Society and Australian and New Zealand Falls Prevention Society, and co-leads the Older Adults Work Plan for the WHO Collaborating Centre for Physical Activity, Nutrition and Obesity.
Her research interests include falls risk assessment, exercise adherence predictors, yoga's role in mobility, policy translation, and allied health professional education. Current projects involve the Active Women over 50 initiative, Choose To Move Sydney, and international collaborations like the SAGE yoga trial in Brazil and the peer-volunteer exercise support project in the UK.
Professor Tiedemann has secured over $27 million in grant funding and authored 180+ publications (H-index 53). Her recent work emphasizes telehealth adaptations, program design for marginalized populations, and cost-effectiveness of interventions. Awards include the NHMRC Research Excellence Award (2016), Sydney Research Young Researcher Award (2017), and Robinson Fellowship (2019).
Advising and grants: She supervises students Ima Strkljevic and Geraldine Wallbank, focusing on volunteer professional skill utilization and physical activity strategies. Grants support trials evaluating exercise programs, yoga, and digital health solutions. International collaborations span Brazil (University of Sao Paulo) and the UK (University of Birmingham).
Labs/Teams: Core member of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies. Leads interdisciplinary teams in fall prevention and healthy aging initiatives, integrating clinical research with policy development.
