{"id":5442,"date":"2025-10-02T16:33:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T06:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/?p=5442"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:37:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T04:37:12","slug":"the-centre-for-adolescent-health-welcomes-dr-susan-paudel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/2025\/10\/02\/the-centre-for-adolescent-health-welcomes-dr-susan-paudel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Centre for Adolescent Health welcomes Dr Susan Paudel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Centre for Adolescent Health is thrilled to welcome our first George Patton Fellow \u2013 Dr Susan Paudel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5443 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2025\/10\/Susan-Paudel-271x277.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2025\/10\/Susan-Paudel-271x277.jpeg 271w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2025\/10\/Susan-Paudel-407x416.jpeg 407w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/files\/2025\/10\/Susan-Paudel.jpeg 764w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Susan is a behavioural epidemiologist with expertise in physical activity, evidence synthesis, and mixed-methods research across diverse groups, including children, adolescents, and culturally and linguistically diverse communities. She completed her PhD in Epidemiology at Monash University in 2021, examining physical activity and chronic diseases among Nepalese adults.<\/p>\n<p>Through this fellowship, Susan will investigate the role of physical activity and sedentary behaviour in adolescents\u2019 health and wellbeing, with a focus on supporting culturally and linguistically diverse adolescents to adopt and maintain healthy behaviours.<\/p>\n<p>The George C. Patton Fellowship in Adolescent Health and Wellbeing honours and extends the legacy of Professor George C. Patton AO MBBS MD FRANZCP FRCPsych.<\/p>\n<p>This Fellowship reflects the shared commitment of three partner organisations: The Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth), The University of Melbourne and The Royal Children\u2019s Hospital (RCH) Centre for Adolescent Health.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about The George Patton Fellowship <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/2025\/03\/14\/the-george-c-patton-fellowship-in-adolescent-health-and-wellbeing\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Adolescent Health is thrilled to welcome our first George Patton Fellow \u2013 Dr Susan Paudel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6637,"featured_media":5443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5442"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5505,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions\/5505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}