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The aims of the ANZBACK CRE are to bring together Australia’s leading researchers in back pain and related fields, and key stakeholders, to:

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Generate new knowledge that leads to improved outcomes

• Develop a platform linking large health data sets to study low back pain care and health outcomes.

• Determine the drivers of poor care to identify levers for achieving the right care for low back pain.

• Conduct trials and systematic reviews to address important knowledge gaps about interventions for low back pain.

​Promote effective transfer of research outcomes into health policy and/or practice

• Improve understanding of low back pain, among patients, clinicians, funders, the media and the general public.

• Develop, implement and evaluate new models of care and service delivery.

• Work with professions, funders and policy-makers at targeted system-level intervention points to enhance efficient delivery of the right care.

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Develop the low back pain health and medical research workforce

• Build breadth by drawing in researchers from related fields; and offering interdisciplinary research training.

• Build capacity by recruiting world-class clinician researchers, and providing expert mentoring to talented students and postdocs.

• Build experience working with research end-users and the wider community.

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Facilitate collaboration

• Forge a collaborative network of leading researchers in low back pain and cognate disciplines from Australia and abroad, and with end-users and the wider community.

• Nurture effective working partnerships and intellectual exchange with other collaborative networks such as the ANZMUSC Clinical Trials Network and WISER Healthcare collaboration