Programs
Australian frameworks, policies, resources, and guidance for health and wellbeing of athletes at all levels.
Australian programs that provide frameworks, policies, resources, and guidance for health and wellbeing of athletes at all levels.
Athlete performance health program, Australian Sports Commission, (accessed 11 September 2025). Developed to provide support and expertise to sports and their athletes to increase the probability of athletes reaching peak performance and maintaining their health ahead of Olympic and Paralympic Games. Resources include:
- E-learning Modules designed and created in collaboration with subject matter and educational design experts to guide performance support practitioners through several Performance Health topics, including:
- Health and performance
- Injury and illness prevention
- Injury reporting and surveillance
- Aligning Prevention Strategies to the Natural History of Disease
Concussion in Australian Sport, Australian Sports Commission, (accessed 11 September 2025). Brings together the most contemporary evidence-based information on concussion for athletes, parents, teachers, coaches and medical practitioners. It provides a valuable and trusted resource for the management of sports-related concussion for all Australians, regardless of the sport, location or level of participation.
In working together, Concussion in Australian Sport aims to:
- Improve safety and health outcomes for all people who suffer concussive injuries while participating in sport.
- Make effective use of funds in the financially-constrained sport and health sectors by providing best practice protocols and guidelines for all sporting and medical organisations.
- Assist all sporting and medical organisations to align their policy and procedures with the most current evidence and expert opinion available.
- Provide consistency of approach in the recognition and management of concussion in Australia.
Key resources include:
- Australian Concussion Guidelines for Youth and Community Sport
- Concussion and Brain Health Position Statement 2024
- Targeted information for Athletes; Parents/teachers; Coaches/support staff; Medical practitioners; and Physiotherapists.
- Educational modules
- Connectivity Sport-Related Concussion Short Course
- Concussion in Sport for Healthcare Practitioners Course
AIS Female Performance & Health Initiative (FPHI), Australian Sports Commission, (accessed 11 September 2025). Was established in October 2019, to improve female athlete specific knowledge and systems of support. The initiative will benefit Australian athletes, coaches, parents, sporting organisations and support staff in the sport sector and will raise awareness and understanding of key female athlete performance and health considerations. Resources include:
- Information and resources
- Athlete stories
- Parenthood recommendations
- Education modules designed with specialist medical practitioners, high performance athletes and high-performance coaches to help educate athletes, parents, coaches and medical practitioners. Topics include:
- Pelvic health
- Breast health
- Body image
- Bone health
- Low energy availability
- Nutrition
- Puberty and development
- Menstrual cycles
- Contraception
- Considerations for medical practitioners managing female athletes
