Adolescent nutrition

This work highlights the effect of nutrition on adolescent growth and development, the role the food environment has on food choices, and which strategies and interventions might lead to healthy adolescent nutrition and growth.

Nairobi meeting of the Second Lancet Commission

The African Population and Health Research Center recently hosted a meeting of the Second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing in Nairobi, Kenya, from May 9 to 11, 2023.

2023 Welcome and Graduation Celebration

On June 15, 2023, the Science Gallery welcomed the University of Melbourne’s Department of Paediatrics and the Centre for Adolescent Health to celebrate our recent graduates.

Capacity Mapping Report

Capacity Mapping Report of the Australian Network of WHO Collaborating Centres.

Global efforts to reduce infectious diseases must extend beyond early childhood

New research led by the Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, has found that infectious disease control has largely focused on children aged under five, with scarce attention on young people between five and 24 years old.