Almost 10 years has passed since the first Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing. Despite some advancements in areas like reducing communicable, maternal, and nutritional diseases or the burden of disease and death from injuries among adolescents, there is still much to be done before the end of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) era in 2030.
We would like to warmly congratulate Dr. Farnaz Sabet on receiving the Chancellor’s Prize for Excellence at the University of Melbourne.
Synopsis: Schools are an important and often underutilised setting for promoting adolescent health and wellbeing. 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 … Continued
Justice Health Unit features at 1st World Conference on Health in Detention Prof Stuart Kinner, Head, Justice Health Unit, University of Melbourne, and Justice Health Group, MCRI along with A/Prof Rohan Borschmann and Louise Southalan, featured at the 1st World Conference on Health in Detention held in Geneva from 27-29 June 2022. The Justice Health Unit (JHU), along with the … Continued
The WH&Y Commission report 2021 Youth health, research and policy priorities and concerns outlines youth perspectives on top health issues, research and policy priorities as well as principles and strategies to address youth health concerns.
