Professor Hylton Menz graduated with first class Honours and the University Medal from La Trobe University in 1993, and completed his PhD in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of New South Wales in 2002. He received continual National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia fellowship funding between 2003 and 2022. Professor Menz's broad research disciplines are human movement, rehabilitation and rheumatology, with a particular focus on musculoskeletal foot problems in older people. His research extends from laboratory-based biomechanical studies through to analysis of epidemiological datasets and the conduct of clinical trials.

Professor Menz has published over 400 journal publications, 3 books and 19 book chapters. His work has been cited over 25,000 times and his Scopus h-index is 86. He has won several awards for his research, including the Young Tall Poppy Award by the Australian Institute for Policy and Science, the La Trobe University Excellence in Research Award, first prize in the British Medical Association Book Awards for his textbook Foot Problems in Older People: Assessment and Management, a Fulbright Senior Scholarship to Harvard University, a La Trobe University Excellence in Graduate Research Supervision Award (with Prof Karl Landorf and Prof Shannon Munteanu) and a La Trobe University Overall Research Excellence Award. In 2016, he was awarded a Doctor of Science from the University of New South Wales, and in 2020 he became the first podiatrist to be inducted into the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

Professor Menz's current research focuses on the epidemiology and management of foot disorders in older people, with a particular emphasis on non-surgical treatments for osteoarthritis. He is currently co-chair of the Australian Foot and Ankle Research Network, co-chair of the Outcome Measures in Rheumatology (OMERACT) Foot and Ankle Working Group, serves on the steering committee of the International Foot and Ankle Osteoarthritis Consortium, and is a member of the Australian Government's MBS Review Advisory Committee (MRAC).