Having completed training in Paediatrics, Epidemiology and Adolescent Medicine, Dr Peter Azzopardi is embarking on a PhD to better understand the health status of young people. Peter will use the upcoming Global Burden of Disease study to estimate global patterns of morbidity and mortality for young people and estimate the potential health benefits through targeting specific risk factors.
The project will also apply the Burden of Disease methodology to Australian data to better understand the health status of Australian Indigenous and non-Indigenous young people. Funded by the NHMRC and Sidney Myer Foundation, Peter will be physically sited at the Centre for Adolescent Health. He will be supervised by Professor George Patton and Professor Susan Sawyer from the Centre for Adolescent Health, Professor Alex Brown (Baker IDI Central Australia), Professor John Carlin (Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, RCH) and Professor Louisa Degenhardt (National Drug and Alcohol Research
Centre).