Homelessness poses a grave and largely preventable challenge. Children and adolescents who are at risk of or who experience homelessness face major adversities that place their safety, health, and opportunities for growth and development at risk across the life course.
The Centre for Adolescent Health is thrilled to welcome our first George Patton Fellow – Dr Susan Paudel.
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.
Learn more the Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Postgraduate courses upcoming events.
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).
A call to action: the second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health
Join us at our next Adolescent Health and Wellbeing postgraduate course information night on July 7th from 5:30pm AEST.
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.
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.
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
