Synopsis: This seminar discussed the global movement from surviving to thriving, emphasizing the need to measure adolescent wellbeing and enable the understanding of current gaps and progress made.
Speakers: Luo Li (PhD candidate, CREYATE) and Professor Peter Azzopardi
Luo Li is a current PhD student based at the Centre of Adolescent Health and the University of Melbourne. Her primary research interest is looking at existing summary measures of subjective wellbeing for adolescents and understanding how these scales are applied in global population surveys to explore major factors that shape adolescents’ wellbeing. She is also a youth advocate, offering a youthful perspective to the Centre of Research Excellence for Driving Global Investment in Adolescent Health (website), and ensuring research aligns with young people’s experiences and advocacy efforts.
Professor Pete Azzopardi leads an international program of research focusing on adolescent health and wellbeing. His research is informed by experience working as a paediatrician in Australia (including in youth justice, the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health sector, tertiary referral services, youth homeless services) and across health services in the Asia Pacific region.
Date: Thursday 1 August
Time: 1:00 to 2:00 pm AEST
Format: Online
Event recording
Advancing Adolescent Health in the Asia Pacific: A virtual community to share knowledge and support collaboration
Despite one in two of the world’s adolescents living in the Asia-Pacific region, adolescent health is a relatively new field of endeavour in Australia as well as the region. It is a field that spans policy makers from multiple sectors, researchers from different disciplines, and practitioners working in health services, schools and communities and encompasses a multitude of health topics and concerns. Despite this, there are few opportunities to come together to share, showcase and build capacity to improve adolescent health and wellbeing in the region.
This seminar series aims to provide opportunities for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, implementers, young advocates – indeed, anyone interested in the health and wellbeing of adolescents – to enhance their understanding of adolescent health and wellbeing, with a focus on research.
This series is supported by the Centre of Research Excellence for Driving Global Investment in Adolescent Health. Led by a team at the Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, it brings together leading Australian research groups including the University of Melbourne, Burnet Institute, University of New South Wales, University of Queensland, University of South Australia, and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute.
Read more about the series here
Next session
An introduction to economic modelling: what it can and can’t do
Synopsis: This online seminar will explain why economic analyses are useful, the different type of economic analyses, and how they can be included in research to increase the impact of the work.
Speakers: A/Prof Nick Scott
Date: Thursday 5 September
Time: 1:00 to 2:00 pm AEST
Format: Online