Congratulations to Dr Peter Azzopardi who was awarded the 2011 RACP trainee research prize at the Royal Australasian College of Physicians Annual Scientific Congress that was held in Darwin last week. The competitive award was in response to his presentation of a systematic review to identify the evidence base for the health and wellbeing of Australian Indigenous young people, a collaborative project between Baker IDI, Burnet Institute and the Centre for Adolescent Health, RCH.
The review maps the available evidence, describes current burden of disease and evaluated programmatic approaches for indigenous 10-24 year olds. This year Peter is a Fellow in Adolescent Health and Medicine at the Centre for Adolescent Health – he is our first trainee to focus on high risk youth, a position which has been made possible through new funding from the Commonwealth of Australia.
His training involves working with vulnerable young people in various clinical
services including those run by the Centre for Adolescent Health (the Adolescent
Forensic Health Service and Young People’s Health Service) and the Victorian
Aboriginal Health Service. Peter also has an appointment as a research fellow
with Baker IDI Central Australia in Alice Springs.