Professor Menz has published 375 journal publications, 3 books and 18 book chapters. His work has been cited over 20,000 times and his Scopus h-index is 76. 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.
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, and serves on the steering committee of the International Foot and Ankle Osteoarthritis Consortium.