The Centre for Adolescent Health welcomes Dr Susan Paudel
The Centre for Adolescent Health is thrilled to welcome our first George Patton Fellow – Dr Susan Paudel.
Events
Seminar Series: Shaping Global Health: WHO-Funded Initiatives Defining Quality Standards and Core Competencies for Adolescent Health
Join Dr Alice Morgan and Dr Alexandra Cussen as they take you behind the scenes of this global revision process and offer a first look at the soon-to-be-released updated guidance that will set the direction for adolescent health services in the years ahead.
Postgraduate Studies in Adolescent Health and Wellbeing: Upcoming Events
Learn more the Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Postgraduate courses upcoming events.
Celebrate International Youth Day with us!
We invite you to attend a special seminar to celebrate International Youth Day for 2025, co-hosted by the Burnet Institute and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI).
Melbourne Children’s Campus – Grand Rounds – hosted by the Centre for Adolescent Health
A call to action: the second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health
Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Online Information Session: 2025 Mid Year Intake
Join us at our next Adolescent Health and Wellbeing postgraduate course information night on July 7th from 5:30pm AEST.
Seminar Series: Advancing the Global Standards for Health-Promoting Schools
This 2-part series will explore whole-school approaches to health promotion, using the first Global Standards for Health Promoting Schools (developed by our team for the WHO and UNESCO) and showcase recent research on the effectiveness and implementation of health-promoting schools with a focus on youth engagement and mental health in the Asia Pacific region.
Seminar Series: Strengthening action on the social determinants of adolescent mental health
In this session, Professor Nicola Reavley will outline the global context for adolescent mental health, with a focus on actions outside the health system, including those relevant to social determinants of mental health. She will also present data from some recent projects and discuss the implications for future action on prevention and promotion.
Seminar Series: Non-communicable diseases and wellbeing in Indonesian Adolescents: engaging young people in the response
Synopsis: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, mental disorder and chronic lung conditions are the leading cause of death and disability in Indonesia. Many of the risks for these diseases emerge in adolescence, yet actions and policy interventions to address these risks rarely target this age group, let alone involve young people … Continued
Seminar Series: Prevalence and forecasts of adolescent overweight and obesity from 1990-2050: global trends, with a lens to the Asia-Pacific region
Synopsis: Adolescents remain a vulnerable population within the global obesity epidemic. Accurate data on obesity transitions are required to inform effective policy and programming for adolescent health. To effectively set global and national targets for adolescent obesity beyond the maturation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) we leverage established methods from the Global Burden of … Continued