The Child to Adult Transition Study (CATS) is a unique longitudinal study that has been following over 1200 children yearly as they transition through adolescence and into adulthood. This year, we undertook the 14th wave of CATS data collection when our participants were 21-22 years of age.
Adolescence has long been seen as a challenging time. New views embrace young people as one of society’s greatest assets and we need to take a systems approach to supporting them.
Congratulations to Professor Susan Sawyer on her election as a new Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
We are thrilled to introduce Dasha Uy as our inaugural Knowledge Exchange Resident at the Centre for Adolescent Health!
Interested in improving adolescent health and wellbeing in schools? Keen to learn about whole-school approaches to health promotion? Eager to engage in meaningful two-way knowledge exchange with like-minded peers?
The Connected Minds Study is an important research study on Australia’s upcoming social media ban for young people under 16. We are inviting 13-16-year-olds and their parents to take part in the study, and would greatly appreciate it if you could share the study with your networks!
In the first of a new series of interviews with our 2025 graduates, our Master’s Coordinator Kristina Bennett speaks with Jordanna Hall.
In this conversation our master’s coordinator Kristina spoke with Nicole one of our fabulous Master’s graduates.
By 2030, there will still be over 1 billion of the world’s adolescents (aged 10-24 years) living in countries where preventable and treatable health problems like HIV/AIDS, early pregnancy, unsafe sex, depression, poor nutrition and injury collectively threaten the health and wellbeing of adolescents, suggests a new analysis from the second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing.
Obesity rates are set to skyrocket, with one in six children and adolescents worldwide forecast to be obese by 2050, according to a new study.
