Project Team

Group Leader
Professor Robert Cumming

Bob Cumming is Professor of Epidemiology and Geriatric Medicine, with an international reputation for his research on osteoporosis, falls and fractures.He completed his medical degree in 1979 and, after four years in clinical medicine, trained as an epidemiologist in Sydney and New York. Professor Cumming’s main research interests are falls, fractures and osteoporosis; health of older men; epidemiology of ageing; and non-communicable disease control in Africa. He leads the Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project.

Co-investigators:
Professor David Handelsman, Professor Markus Seibel, Dr Helen Creasey (CERA), Dr Vasi Naganathan (CERA), Dr Louise Waite (CERA), Professor Philip Sambrook (Royal North Shore Hospital), Professor David Le Couteur (CERA)

Staff and Students:
Melisa Litchfield, Janet Gilchrist, Angeline Koh, Janice Koh, Golnar Mousavi, Diane Pinkerton, Fiona Blyth, Kerrin Bleicher, Noran Hairi, Chris Hoon, Anita Sharma, Fiona Stanaway