Young People’s Health Service launch "Voices from the Street"

The staff of the Young People’s Health Service, from the RCH, Centre for Health were with Professor Brian Burdekin at the Melbourne Town Hall on the 9 of March 2007. YPHS was in attendance for the launch of the February edition (Young Homeless People and their future). YPHS also launched their Public Safety DVD “Voices … Continued

Young Australians: there health & wellbeing

Professor George Patton was speaking at the ministerial launch of Young Australians: their health and wellbeing 2007. He chaired the Advisory Committee to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare around the development of the report. The report brings together the best available current data on aspects of health and social development and is widely … Continued

But where should I sit?

Muliti-disciplinary research requires careful navigational skills, as Amy Nisselle and Rony Duncan explain. GRADUATE STUDIES It’s now more and more common for Masters and PhD students in Australia to undertake projects that cross fields of research. The problem is, multi-disciplinary research is a relatively new phenomenon. Students are often supervised by experts who did not … Continued

9th World Congress on Adolescent Health

Global gains in infant and child survival have resulted in greater appreciation of the importance of taking the health and wellbeing of adolescents more seriously; the tremendous reduction in mortality globally in the 1-5 year age group has not been replicated to the same extent in 10-24 year olds. Furthermore, globalisation has changed the nature … Continued

Adolescent Model of Care

Find out the key findings from the 2009 review of the Adolescent Model of Care.

Article in the West Australian paper re: alcohol

Does letting teens have small amounts of alcohol from early on teach them to drink sensibly? Click on the link below to read what Prof. Patton of the Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute says. http://www.mcri.edu.au/Downloads/Media/2009/11/04/alcohol.pdf

Congratulations to Professor George Patton

Congratulations to Professor George Patton, Director of Research at the Centre for Adolescent Health, whose team’s research on youth mortality recently received coverage on The New York Times website. The international study, published in The Lancet this month, was the first to report on the rates and causes of global mortality in people aged 10-24. … Continued

Does Clinical Outreach Make a Difference?

“If I known about Frontyard and YPHS when I was 15, I would have found help then, and maybe my life would be different.” (20yr old homeless mother) An Evaluation of clinical street outreach in Melbourne’s CBD 2009 – Written by Donna Eade Executive Summary of the YPHS clinical street outreach (CSO) evaluation, 2009. YPHS … Continued

Congratulations to Prof. George Patton

Congratulations to Prof George Patton who was awarded the TheSchering-Plough (Organon) Senior Research Award. His presentation was on  “What’s a guy like you doing in a place like this?’” The annual Schering-Plough (Organon) Senior Research Award is made to the Fellow who has made the most significant contribution to Psychiatric research in Australia and New … Continued