{"id":968,"date":"2011-11-08T09:10:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T23:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rch.org.au\/blogs\/cah\/?p=968"},"modified":"2011-11-14T11:48:51","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T01:48:51","slug":"cah-professors-address-3rd-world-health-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/cah\/2011\/11\/08\/cah-professors-address-3rd-world-health-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"CAH Professors address 3rd World Health Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>World Health Summit<\/a>
\nProfessor Susan Sawyer, Director, Centre for Adolescent Health and Professor George Patton, Director of Research, Centre for Adolescent Health, were recent participants in the 3rd<\/sup> World Health Summit in Berlin in October in a major symposium on adolescent health. Interest in the adolescent and young adult years reflects dynamic changes in the burden of
\ndisease in both younger children and older adults. At one end of the life-course, dramatic improvements in child health have led to growing interest in the\u00a0 second decade of life – with an appreciation that new investments are needed in adolescence to cement earlier health gains. At the other end of the life-course, the growing burden of non-communicable diseases from behaviours that start in adolescence provides a very different rationale for promoting healthy adolescent development.<\/p>\n

The World Health Summit has created an international high-level forum for thought leaders, innovators and change agents in public health policy and life sciences. Attended by governmental representatives, policy makers, non-governmental organisations, social institutions and health-related industries, it aims to initiate cross-sectoral solutions in
\nresponse to the complex challenges faced by our increasingly globalised societies.<\/p>\n

The symposium on adolescent health was convened by the Centre for Adolescent Health through the University of Melbourne, together with UNICEF and The Lancet. The aim was to consider the scope for translating new understandings of adolescent health into global action. Chaired by Professor Susan Sawyer and Sabine Kleinert, Senior Executive Editor, The Lancet, the four speakers addressed important steps that included the establishment of adequate information systems, the development of structures for governance and
\ncoordination of efforts, and examples of what programs are possible in this emerging field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nDefining the Problems: Development of Data Systems for
\nAdolescent Health <\/strong>George Patton | Professor of Adolescent Health Research |
\nUniversity of Melbourne | Australia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nGrowing Global Systems to Respond to Adolescent Health Needs <\/strong>Miriam Temin | Consultant | Population Council and UNICEF |
\nUnited States<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nGrowing Capacity in Adolescent Health in LMIC: The Experience in Sub-Saharan Africa <\/strong>Caroline Kabiru | Research Scientist | African Population and\u00a0 Health, Research Centre | Kenya<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nThe Potential for Joined-up Approaches in Adolescent Health <\/strong>Mickey Chopra | Chief of Health and Associate Director of
\nProgrammes | UNICEF | United States<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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