Launching a bold new future for health and equity in South West Sydney
On 4 December 2025, the Premier of New South Wales joined local MPs, clinicians, researchers, community leaders and industry partners in Campbelltown to officially open the Lang Walker AO Medical Research Building. This purpose-designed facility on the Campbelltown Hospital campus will house Ingham Institute Macarthur, the second centre in our multi-site model, dedicated to health equity through translational research. Ingham Institute Macarthur will pioneer early intervention and prevention research in and for one of Australia’s fastest-growing and most diverse regions.
Ingham Institute Chief Executive Officer Simone Proft and Executive Director for Research Partnerships Katie Quinn Gilbert accompany the Premier of New South Wales, the Hon. Chris Minns MP, together with local Members Greg Warren MP and Sally Quinnell MP, on an official tour of the Lang Walker AO Medical Research Building.
The Lang Walker AO Medical Research Building was delivered in a powerful partnership between Ingham Institute, South Western Sydney Local Health District, Western Sydney University and UNSW and through the incredible generosity of the late Lang Walker AO and his family.
Linked directly to both Campbelltown Hospital and the Macarthur Clinical School, the three-storey facility was built for integrated clinical research. Each floor can operate as a fully functional outpatient research clinic, supported by advanced imaging and assessment zones, ensuring that research happens not beside care, but within it.
As in Liverpool, the Institute’s research focus in Macarthur has been shaped around the real and unique health challenges of the region: high rates of diabetes, childhood developmental vulnerability, mental illness and preventable disease, made more complex by entrenched social disadvantage and cultural diversity. Ingham Institute Macarthur exists as a direct response to these realities—with health equity as its central mission.
Ingham Institute will activate operations with two major Flagship programs:
- South West Kids Research, from pre-conception through to transition to adulthood; and
- Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolic Research, targeting prevention, integrated chronic disease care, technology-enabled monitoring and interprofessional education to bend the curve on one of the region’s most costly conditions.
Supporting these Flagships is a network of enabling platforms spanning allied health, nursing and midwifery, clinical trials, bioinformatics, imaging, robotics, medical devices, simulation and community engagement—creating a living ecosystem for innovation.
Ingham Institute Macarthur marks not just the launch of a new facility; it is the beginning of a research-led, community-anchored future for health in Campbelltown, and across the Institute’s network of Centres.
From Campbelltown, its impact is set to travel far beyond the region—global in reach, local in heart.
Aerial view of the Campbelltown Hospital precinct, with the Lang Walker AO Medical Research Building pictured in the centre foreground. Photo credits: Tom Roe (building) and Luke Fuda (event)
