Events and Conferences

• American College of Rheumatology: Winter Rheumatology Symposium  January 26-30, 2025 – Snowmass, CO
• Orthopaedic Research Society: 2025 Annual Meeting  February 7-11, 2025 – Phoenix, AZ
• American Physical Therapy Association: APTA Combined Sections Meeting  February 13-15, 2025 – Houston, TX
• National Academy of Sciences: Our Planet, Our Health: 2025 Climate Action Convention  March 2-4, 2025 – Washington, D.C.
• NEW! Osteoarthritis Foundation International: 5th Articulating Sport Congress  March 5-6, 2025 – Madrid, Spain
• 2025 IDEA & ACSM Health & Fitness Summit  March 7-9, 2025 – Denver, CO
• Australian OA Summit 2025: Driving Impactful Research  March 14, 2025 – Melbourne, Australia
• National AgrAbility Project: 2025 AgrAbility National Training Workshop  March 24-27, 2025 – Las Cruces, NM
• Arthritis Foundation: 2025 Pathways Conference  March 28-29, 2025 – Chicago, IL
• American College of Rheumatology: State-of-the-Art Clinical Symposium  April 4-6, 2025 – Chicago, IL
• Society for Public Health Education: 2025 Annual Conference  April 16-18, 2025 – Long Beach, CA
• American Medical Society for Sports Medicine: 2025 AMSSM Annual Meeting  April 22-27, 2025 – Kansas City, MO
• NEW! Osteoarthritis Research Society International: OARSI 2025 World Congress  April 24-27, 2025 – Incheon, South Korea
• National Council on Aging: Age+Action 2025 Conference  May 28-30, 2025 – Arlington, VA
• World Physiotherapy Congress 2025  May 29-31, 2025 – Tokyo, Japan
• National Athletic Trainers Association: 76th NATA Clinical Symposia & AT Expo  June 24-27, 2025 – Orlando, FL
• Obesity Action Coalition: Your Weight Matters Conference  July 24-26, 2025 – Washington, D.C.

Funding Opportunities

• Arthritis National Research Foundation: All Arthritis Research Grant  Deadline January 24, 2025
• NIH: Advancing Healthcare for Older Adults from Populations that Experience Health Disparities (R01 – Clinical Trial Optional)  Deadline February 5, 2025
• NIH: The Role of Work in Health Disparities in the U.S. (R01 Clinical Trials Optional)  Deadline February 5, 2025
• OREF/Goldberg Arthritis Research Grant  Deadline February 13, 2025
• NEW! National Council on Aging: 2025 ACL Innovation Lab Funding Opportunity  Letter of Interest due February 10, 2025
• NEW! National Council on Aging: State Falls Prevention Coalitions  Deadline February 21, 2025
• NIH: Late-Stage Translation of Biomedical and Behavioral Research Results in Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases from Academic/Non-profit Lab to Marketplace (SBIR [R43/R44] Clinical Trial Not Allowed)  Deadline September 5, 2025
• NIH: Research With Activities Related to Diversity (ReWARD) (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)  Deadline February 5, 2026
• NEW! UNC Thurston Arthritis Research Center: UNC CCCR Pilot Grant Application  Deadline Open
• RWJF: Pioneering Ideas: Exploring the Future to Build a Culture of Health  Deadline Open

Webinars

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• Arthritis Foundation: Weighing Your Options: Managing Weight with Arthritis  January 23, 2025, at 7PM ET
• NEW! National Council on Aging: Innovation in the Direct Care Workforce: Unlocking Success through Peer Learning Collaboratives (PLCs)  January 29, 2025, at 2PM ET
• NEW! National Council on Aging: ACL Innovation Lab Funding Opportunity Information Session  January 30, 2025, at 3PM ET
• OAAA Webinar: Rethink Osteoarthritis: How Digital Mindset Interventions Improve Physical Activity Engagement and Empower Knee Osteoarthritis Management  February 19, 2025, at 12PM ET
• Arthritis Foundation: Anxiety and Arthritis: Coping Strategies and Treatments  February 27, 2025, at 7PM ET

Osteoarthritis in the Media

The latest in news, policy, & practice on osteoarthritis

• Arthritis Foundation: Joe Hart aims to beat osteoarthritis (1/16/2025)
• Versus Arthritis: Creating change together – The impact of our campaigning in 2024 (1/15/2025)
• The Guardian: Call to overhaul obesity diagnoses amid fears of over-reliance on BMI (1/14/2025)
• The Rheumatologist: Patients’ voices ring out (1/10/2025)
• Center for Aging and Health: UNC Geriatrics celebrates 2024 highlights and milestones (1/10/2025)
• UNC Health Newsroom: Study unveils 13 genes that increase risk of osteoarthritis (1/8/2025)
• AposHealth® wins 2025 Global Recognition Award for revolutionary musculoskeletal care innovation (1/8/2025)
• Several members of the OAAA Secondary Prevention Task Group discussed lower extremity injury prevention in the NATA Research to Clinical Practice newsletter (1/6/2025)
• Booming Encore: 25 ideas to help you positively age (1/6/2025)
• The Joint Action has posted a new podcast on the topic “The key to better osteoarthritis treatments – Clinical trials explained” (1/5/2025)