A collaborative approach

Maridulu Budyari Gumal was created to move healthcare forward faster. We are the Sydney Partnership for Health, Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE). 16 leading organisations on a mission to power innovative research around the world. The faster we translate discoveries into care, the faster we can treat and cure disease.
Our name

Maridulu Budyari Gumal – the Aboriginal name gifted to us by the Dharug people – means ‘working together for good health and wellbeing’. More than a name it’s a promise…
Explore news
Some of the biggest health issues our Clinical Academic Groups are tackling in our community today.

A national effort to strengthen consumer and community involvement
SPHERE is co-leading a national collaborative effort with AHRA members to accelerate the implementation of best practice Consumer and Community Involvement (CCI) in Australia.

Learning, sharing and weaving
Understanding Aboriginal perspectives and cultural knowledge was the subject of this outstanding Applied Indigenous Research Methods workshop.

2023 Seed Funding Grant recipients announced
We are excited to announce the recipients of the 2023 SPHERE Seed Funding Grants.

Implementation Science Collaborative launched
Empowering clinicians and researchers with implementation science tools to help embed evidence into practice is the aim of SPHERE's newly launched Implementation Science Collaborative.

Highlighting ways to promote health equity through land use planning
To what extent do the NSW Government's land use planning instruments apply an equity lens to improve health outcomes and mitigate health disparities? This research by SPHERE's Healthy Urban Environments Collaboratory (HUE) aims to find out.

Symposium brings together the best cardiovascular researchers
Leading cardiovascular disease clinicians and researchers from SPHERE, and two NSW NHMRC-accredited Research Translation Centres came together at the jointly hosted Cardiovascular Symposium.
What’s on
Some of the important events happening within our partnership today.
Let’s do health better
Acknowledgement | We acknowledge the Dharug people, whose lands we live and work on. We uphold your culture and connection to community, land and water. We honour your elders, today and yesterday, and will look to them to inspire a better tomorrow.