Professors George Patton and Susan Sawyer were guests of the Dean, Professor Stefano Bertozzi, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley when they spoke at the Dean’s Speaker Series on October 26, 2015 on “A new global agenda for adolescent health: Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing”.

This was part of a 2 day visit to UC Berkeley where Susan and George were invited to engage with the leaders of Berkeley’s new Innovation for Youth Program (I4Y) at the School of Public Health, led by Professors Emily Ozer, Ndola and Coco Auerswald, which has recently formed as a new focus of global adolescent health research at UC Berkeley.

From left to right:

Colette (Coco) Auerswald. Associate Professor, Community Health and Human Development

Susan Sawyer. Geoff and Helen Handbury Chair of Adolescent Health, University of Melbourne; Director, Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children’s Hospital.

George Patton. Senior Principal Research Fellow, NHMRC; Director of Research, Centre for Adolescent Health, Royal Children’s Hospital

Emily Ozer. Director, MS Program, UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program. Professor, Community Health & Human Development. Director, Health and Social Behavior Program

Ndola Prata. Fred H. Bixby Endowed Chair in Population and Family Planning. Associate Professor in Residence, Maternal and Child Health. Director, Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability