Associate ProfessorHelen Macpherson

2025 Mid-Career Faculty of Health Partnership in Practice award for work with Dementia Australia

2024 SENS team of the year award for Gender Equity Diversity and Inclusion committee

2022 IPAN Stakeholder Engagement award to a Senior Researcher

2016 - CASS Foundation travel award to attend 2016 Organisation of Human Brain Mapping meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, June 26-30

2015- 2 year Health Research Postdoctoral research Fellowship, Deakin University, Melbourne Australia.

2018 Co-authored paper Kennedy, G., Hardman, R. J., Macpherson, H., Scholey, A. B., & Pipingas, A. 2016. Journal of Alzheimers Disease. 55 (1), 1 -18 was awarded the 2018 Alzheimer Award for best paper published in Journal of Alzheimers Disease ($7500).

2013- Travel Fellowship to attend 2013 Alzheimers Association International Conference (AAIC) in Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Macpherson, H. Cognitive Decline Emerging Treatments & Trends Forum at the 14th Annual National Dementia Conference, Melbourne Australia, June 21-22, 2023.

Macpherson, H. The association between the Mediterranean diet, dementia risk and depression. AAOCS Mediterranean Diet workshop, World Congress of Fats and Oils, Sydney. Australia, February 9, 2020,

Macpherson, H. Multi-domain dietary and exercise interventions to enhance cognition in older people. Lifestyle Medicine Conference. Sydney Australia, September 15- 17, 2017.

Macpherson, H., and Daly, R. 2016. A multi-faceted intervention to enhance cognition in older people at risk of cognitive decline. Rapid oral presentation at the Australian Dementia Forum, Brisbane, Australia, May 1-3, 2016.

Blueprint for an Active Australia collaborator - contributor to Heart foundation guidelines

2016- Current: NHMRC National Institute for Dementia Research (NNIDR)