Research Project
Saurab Sharma
Current Appointments
Postdoctoral Research FellowKey Research Areas
Dr Saurab Sharma is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at NeuRA and the UNSW School of Health Sciences. Saurab is supported by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) John J. Bonica Fellowship (2020). Dr Sharma received the Exceptional Thesis Award for his PhD by the University of Otago (2020). Before joining a PhD in 2017, Saurab worked as an educator and musculoskeletal physiotherapist in Nepal for a decade. Saurab has won multiple awards including The Otago Most Promising Pain Research Award (2021) and The UNSW School of Health Sciences Early Career Researcher of the Year Award (2022).
Saurab has published >65 peer-reviewed publications in top general medical (BMJ) and specialist journals (e.g., PAIN, J Physiotherapy). He currently serves as Associate Editor for JOSPT and Physiotherapy. He is one of the Commissioners for the Lancet Commission on Osteoarthritis. Saurab is a Development Group Member for the World Health Organisation’s initiative of developing rehabilitation intervention package for osteoarthritis. Saurab serves on 5 IASP committees and taskforces including Global Alliance of Partners for Pain Advocacy, Global Year Against Pain 2022 and 2023.
Saurab currently leads research theme on Equitable Pain Care – Globally (EQUIP-ALL) within the Centre for Pain IMPACT led by Professor James H. McAuley with an aim to improve pain care for underserved populations. Within this theme, Saurab currently chairs a Consortium for Low Back Pain in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) which consists of 65 multidisciplinary stakeholders from 35 countries. Follow Saurab’s work on Google Scholar.
Publications
2024 Dec
The STarT Back Screening Tool: The Nepali Translation, Cross‐Cultural Adaptation and Measurement Properties in Adults With Non‐Specific Low Back Pain
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1002/msc.1952
2024 Sep
Exploring the association of gender role expectations of pain and measures of pain sensitization in people with knee osteoarthritis: A cross-sectional study
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2024.03.117
2024, 09 Aug
Global pattern, trend, and cross-country inequality of early musculoskeletal disorders from 1990 to 2019, with projection from 2020 to 2050
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1172373779
2024, 01 Aug
How Low Back Pain is Managed—A Mixed-Methods Study in 32 Countries. Part 2 of Low Back Pain in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Series
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1170649143
2024, 01 Jul
The Smallest Worthwhile Effect on Pain Intensity of Exercise Therapy for People With Chronic Low Back Pain: A Discrete Choice Experiment Study
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1170815213
2024 Jul
A Qualitative Study Identifying Barriers and Enablers to Exercise Adherence in People with Chronic Low Back Pain. “It’s a personal journey”
View full journal-article on https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpain.2024.02.002
2024, 01 Jun
Pre-COVID life expectancy, mortality, and burden of diseases for adults 70 years and older in Australia: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1172499020
2024 Jun
Development of recommendations for a minimum dataset for Identifying Social factors that Stratify Health Opportunities and Outcomes (ISSHOOs) in pain research
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1166296961
2024, 18 May
Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022–2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1171723383
2024, 18 May
Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
View full journal-article on https://app.dimensions.ai/details/publication/pub.1170801947