Centre for Adolescent Health
@cforah.bsky.social
The Centre for Adolescent Health - making a difference to young people’s health and wellbeing by advancing knowledge, policy, and practice.
Established in 1991, based at the Children’s campus in Melbourne.
#AdolescentHealthResearch
Established in 1991, based at the Children’s campus in Melbourne.
#AdolescentHealthResearch
Unpacking pathways into & out of homelessness for Australian adolescents — join the conversation at our next seminar series!
Speaker🗣️A/Prof Jess Heerde
Date📅13 November 2025
Time🕐1:00pm - 2:00pm AEDT
Where📍Online via Zoom - register to attend here 🔗 bit.ly/CRECOP
#adolescent #homelessness
Speaker🗣️A/Prof Jess Heerde
Date📅13 November 2025
Time🕐1:00pm - 2:00pm AEDT
Where📍Online via Zoom - register to attend here 🔗 bit.ly/CRECOP
#adolescent #homelessness
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Unpacking pathways into & out of homelessness for Australian adolescents — join the conversation at our next seminar series!
Speaker🗣️A/Prof Jess Heerde
Date📅13 November 2025
Time🕐1:00pm - 2:00pm AEDT
Where📍Online via Zoom - register to attend here 🔗 bit.ly/CRECOP
#adolescent #homelessness
Speaker🗣️A/Prof Jess Heerde
Date📅13 November 2025
Time🕐1:00pm - 2:00pm AEDT
Where📍Online via Zoom - register to attend here 🔗 bit.ly/CRECOP
#adolescent #homelessness
Do you want to learn about the Second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing?
Join us THIS THURSDAY!
This seminar will explore progress, challenges, emerging drivers, and next steps for advancing adolescent health and wellbeing globally.
Register & join online via bit.ly/CRECOP
Join us THIS THURSDAY!
This seminar will explore progress, challenges, emerging drivers, and next steps for advancing adolescent health and wellbeing globally.
Register & join online via bit.ly/CRECOP
October 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Do you want to learn about the Second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing?
Join us THIS THURSDAY!
This seminar will explore progress, challenges, emerging drivers, and next steps for advancing adolescent health and wellbeing globally.
Register & join online via bit.ly/CRECOP
Join us THIS THURSDAY!
This seminar will explore progress, challenges, emerging drivers, and next steps for advancing adolescent health and wellbeing globally.
Register & join online via bit.ly/CRECOP
Join us for our next seminar - Shaping Global Health: WHO-Funded Initiatives Defining Quality Standards and Core Competencies for Adolescent Health.
When ⏲️ Thursday, 11 September 2025, 1:00 pm AEST
Where 📍 Online, via Zoom ,
Register to attend here 🔗 bit.ly/CRECOP
#Adolescence #SeminarSeries
When ⏲️ Thursday, 11 September 2025, 1:00 pm AEST
Where 📍 Online, via Zoom ,
Register to attend here 🔗 bit.ly/CRECOP
#Adolescence #SeminarSeries
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Join us for our next seminar - Shaping Global Health: WHO-Funded Initiatives Defining Quality Standards and Core Competencies for Adolescent Health.
When ⏲️ Thursday, 11 September 2025, 1:00 pm AEST
Where 📍 Online, via Zoom ,
Register to attend here 🔗 bit.ly/CRECOP
#Adolescence #SeminarSeries
When ⏲️ Thursday, 11 September 2025, 1:00 pm AEST
Where 📍 Online, via Zoom ,
Register to attend here 🔗 bit.ly/CRECOP
#Adolescence #SeminarSeries
Join us for a special seminar celebrating International Youth Day 2025, co-hosted by the Burnet Institute and MCRI. This seminar will present key findings & recommendations from the second Lancet Commission on #adolescenthealth & wellbeing.
Find out more here 🔗 blogs.rch.org.au/cah/2025/08/...
Find out more here 🔗 blogs.rch.org.au/cah/2025/08/...
August 11, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Join us for a special seminar celebrating International Youth Day 2025, co-hosted by the Burnet Institute and MCRI. This seminar will present key findings & recommendations from the second Lancet Commission on #adolescenthealth & wellbeing.
Find out more here 🔗 blogs.rch.org.au/cah/2025/08/...
Find out more here 🔗 blogs.rch.org.au/cah/2025/08/...
To launch #HomelessnessWeek, A/Prof Jess Heerde was invited to speak on a panel at the MCM’s Victorian Youth Homelessness Snapshot.
Jess spoke with the Minister of Housing, Harriet Shing & some amazing youth homelessness advocates!
Learn more🔗 homelessnessaustralia.org.au/homelessness...
Jess spoke with the Minister of Housing, Harriet Shing & some amazing youth homelessness advocates!
Learn more🔗 homelessnessaustralia.org.au/homelessness...
August 4, 2025 at 6:09 AM
To launch #HomelessnessWeek, A/Prof Jess Heerde was invited to speak on a panel at the MCM’s Victorian Youth Homelessness Snapshot.
Jess spoke with the Minister of Housing, Harriet Shing & some amazing youth homelessness advocates!
Learn more🔗 homelessnessaustralia.org.au/homelessness...
Jess spoke with the Minister of Housing, Harriet Shing & some amazing youth homelessness advocates!
Learn more🔗 homelessnessaustralia.org.au/homelessness...
Wanting to gain an understanding of #AdolescentHealth? ✅
Looking for #skills that will help you professionally?✅
Gain exposure to adolescent health studies with our free CAH &
University of Melbourne #shortcourse on adolescent health & wellbeing. 👨🎓
Starts Aug 4
bit.ly/3clQPEM
Looking for #skills that will help you professionally?✅
Gain exposure to adolescent health studies with our free CAH &
University of Melbourne #shortcourse on adolescent health & wellbeing. 👨🎓
Starts Aug 4
bit.ly/3clQPEM
July 31, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Wanting to gain an understanding of #AdolescentHealth? ✅
Looking for #skills that will help you professionally?✅
Gain exposure to adolescent health studies with our free CAH &
University of Melbourne #shortcourse on adolescent health & wellbeing. 👨🎓
Starts Aug 4
bit.ly/3clQPEM
Looking for #skills that will help you professionally?✅
Gain exposure to adolescent health studies with our free CAH &
University of Melbourne #shortcourse on adolescent health & wellbeing. 👨🎓
Starts Aug 4
bit.ly/3clQPEM
📢What do you think of the Social Media Ban for Teens?
Have your say!
Take part in important research about Australia's social media ban for teens under 16.
▶️ Complete the survey here: redcap.link/connected-mi...
#SocialMediaBan #SocialMedia #Teens
Have your say!
Take part in important research about Australia's social media ban for teens under 16.
▶️ Complete the survey here: redcap.link/connected-mi...
#SocialMediaBan #SocialMedia #Teens
July 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
📢What do you think of the Social Media Ban for Teens?
Have your say!
Take part in important research about Australia's social media ban for teens under 16.
▶️ Complete the survey here: redcap.link/connected-mi...
#SocialMediaBan #SocialMedia #Teens
Have your say!
Take part in important research about Australia's social media ban for teens under 16.
▶️ Complete the survey here: redcap.link/connected-mi...
#SocialMediaBan #SocialMedia #Teens
We would like to warmly congratulate Dr. Farnaz Sabet on receiving the Chancellor's Prize for Excellence at the University of Melbourne for her PhD - Evaluating the Outcomes of Participatory Women's Groups for Pregnant Adolescent Girls - minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/items/49b8bb...
July 23, 2025 at 3:42 AM
We would like to warmly congratulate Dr. Farnaz Sabet on receiving the Chancellor's Prize for Excellence at the University of Melbourne for her PhD - Evaluating the Outcomes of Participatory Women's Groups for Pregnant Adolescent Girls - minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/items/49b8bb...
Mid-Year applications for postgraduate study in Adolescent Health & Wellbeing are closing soon!
Study online with the CAH at the University of Melbourne, Australia's #1 ranked University, #19 globally.
Applications close on July 18.
Learn more: study.unimelb.edu.au/lp/mdhs/stud...
Study online with the CAH at the University of Melbourne, Australia's #1 ranked University, #19 globally.
Applications close on July 18.
Learn more: study.unimelb.edu.au/lp/mdhs/stud...
July 16, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Mid-Year applications for postgraduate study in Adolescent Health & Wellbeing are closing soon!
Study online with the CAH at the University of Melbourne, Australia's #1 ranked University, #19 globally.
Applications close on July 18.
Learn more: study.unimelb.edu.au/lp/mdhs/stud...
Study online with the CAH at the University of Melbourne, Australia's #1 ranked University, #19 globally.
Applications close on July 18.
Learn more: study.unimelb.edu.au/lp/mdhs/stud...
Our #postgraduate courses in #AdolescentHealth and Wellbeing prepare you to address these urgent challenges. Gain the skills and insights to make a real difference for the next generation—join us in shaping a healthier future.
🔗https://bit.ly/ahwpostgrad
#education
🔗https://bit.ly/ahwpostgrad
#education
June 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Our #postgraduate courses in #AdolescentHealth and Wellbeing prepare you to address these urgent challenges. Gain the skills and insights to make a real difference for the next generation—join us in shaping a healthier future.
🔗https://bit.ly/ahwpostgrad
#education
🔗https://bit.ly/ahwpostgrad
#education
Reposted by Centre for Adolescent Health
"Adolescence is foremost a time of ideas, reimagination, revolution, and a creation of new approaches—exactly what we all need for a better future and the survival of our planet."
Read our latest Editorial linked to a new Lancet Commission on adolescent health & wellbeing: tinyurl.com/4he442xz
Read our latest Editorial linked to a new Lancet Commission on adolescent health & wellbeing: tinyurl.com/4he442xz
A wake-up call: the second Commission on adolescent health
9 years ago, The Lancet published the first Commission on adolescent health, which
argued for adolescence as a key stage of development in the life course that has been
largely neglected by the global...
tinyurl.com
May 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"Adolescence is foremost a time of ideas, reimagination, revolution, and a creation of new approaches—exactly what we all need for a better future and the survival of our planet."
Read our latest Editorial linked to a new Lancet Commission on adolescent health & wellbeing: tinyurl.com/4he442xz
Read our latest Editorial linked to a new Lancet Commission on adolescent health & wellbeing: tinyurl.com/4he442xz
Join speakers Professor Susan Sawyer, Dr Jennifer Dam, Dr Roshini Balasooriya for our next Seminar Series: Advancing the Global Standards for Health-Promoting Schools!
When 📅 12th of June 2025
Time 🕐 1:00 pm AEST
Where 📍 Online!
Register to attend here: bit.ly/CRECOP
When 📅 12th of June 2025
Time 🕐 1:00 pm AEST
Where 📍 Online!
Register to attend here: bit.ly/CRECOP
June 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Join speakers Professor Susan Sawyer, Dr Jennifer Dam, Dr Roshini Balasooriya for our next Seminar Series: Advancing the Global Standards for Health-Promoting Schools!
When 📅 12th of June 2025
Time 🕐 1:00 pm AEST
Where 📍 Online!
Register to attend here: bit.ly/CRECOP
When 📅 12th of June 2025
Time 🕐 1:00 pm AEST
Where 📍 Online!
Register to attend here: bit.ly/CRECOP
Do you need to build your team's skills in adolescent health & wellbeing? Now is the ideal time to invest in your workforce! The Centre for Adolescent Health is proud to offer flexible postgraduate courses.
Study online, anywhere in the world.
Learn more here study.unimelb.edu.au/lp/mdhs/stud...
Study online, anywhere in the world.
Learn more here study.unimelb.edu.au/lp/mdhs/stud...
June 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Do you need to build your team's skills in adolescent health & wellbeing? Now is the ideal time to invest in your workforce! The Centre for Adolescent Health is proud to offer flexible postgraduate courses.
Study online, anywhere in the world.
Learn more here study.unimelb.edu.au/lp/mdhs/stud...
Study online, anywhere in the world.
Learn more here study.unimelb.edu.au/lp/mdhs/stud...
🌱 Investing in adolescents benefits them now, helps them as adults & supports the next generation.
But adolescent health is at a tipping point.
Action is needed now, says new Lancet Commission. Read the report👉 hubs.li/Q03mc4ZZ0
#AdolescentHealth #WHA78 #Healthpolicy #PublicHealth #Science4Policy
But adolescent health is at a tipping point.
Action is needed now, says new Lancet Commission. Read the report👉 hubs.li/Q03mc4ZZ0
#AdolescentHealth #WHA78 #Healthpolicy #PublicHealth #Science4Policy
May 21, 2025 at 8:08 AM
🌱 Investing in adolescents benefits them now, helps them as adults & supports the next generation.
But adolescent health is at a tipping point.
Action is needed now, says new Lancet Commission. Read the report👉 hubs.li/Q03mc4ZZ0
#AdolescentHealth #WHA78 #Healthpolicy #PublicHealth #Science4Policy
But adolescent health is at a tipping point.
Action is needed now, says new Lancet Commission. Read the report👉 hubs.li/Q03mc4ZZ0
#AdolescentHealth #WHA78 #Healthpolicy #PublicHealth #Science4Policy
Reposted by Centre for Adolescent Health
It’s time to act on adolescent health!
🌎 Globally, the health of adolescents is at a tipping point. A new @thelancet.com Commission urges action on rising threats to young people’s health & wellbeing.
👉 bit.ly/4k14Vgo
🌎 Globally, the health of adolescents is at a tipping point. A new @thelancet.com Commission urges action on rising threats to young people’s health & wellbeing.
👉 bit.ly/4k14Vgo
A call to action: the second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing
The second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing focuses on required actions to transform adolescent health and wellbeing.
bit.ly
May 21, 2025 at 7:46 AM
It’s time to act on adolescent health!
🌎 Globally, the health of adolescents is at a tipping point. A new @thelancet.com Commission urges action on rising threats to young people’s health & wellbeing.
👉 bit.ly/4k14Vgo
🌎 Globally, the health of adolescents is at a tipping point. A new @thelancet.com Commission urges action on rising threats to young people’s health & wellbeing.
👉 bit.ly/4k14Vgo
Reposted by Centre for Adolescent Health
Policy makers, researchers, youth leaders: Join us to transform adolescent health & wellbeing! Lancet Commission report launch, May 21, Geneva.
Register ▶️ bit.ly/LC2025launch #AdolescentHealth #WHA78 @who.int
Register ▶️ bit.ly/LC2025launch #AdolescentHealth #WHA78 @who.int
May 19, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Policy makers, researchers, youth leaders: Join us to transform adolescent health & wellbeing! Lancet Commission report launch, May 21, Geneva.
Register ▶️ bit.ly/LC2025launch #AdolescentHealth #WHA78 @who.int
Register ▶️ bit.ly/LC2025launch #AdolescentHealth #WHA78 @who.int
Reposted by Centre for Adolescent Health
So excited for the global launch of "A call to action: the second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing" at #WHA2025.
📅 Date: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
⏰ Time: 18:00 – 20:00 CEST
📍 Location: President Wilson Hotel Ballroom, Geneva
🔗 More info: bit.ly/LC2025launch
#LancetYouth
📅 Date: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
⏰ Time: 18:00 – 20:00 CEST
📍 Location: President Wilson Hotel Ballroom, Geneva
🔗 More info: bit.ly/LC2025launch
#LancetYouth
May 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
So excited for the global launch of "A call to action: the second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing" at #WHA2025.
📅 Date: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
⏰ Time: 18:00 – 20:00 CEST
📍 Location: President Wilson Hotel Ballroom, Geneva
🔗 More info: bit.ly/LC2025launch
#LancetYouth
📅 Date: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
⏰ Time: 18:00 – 20:00 CEST
📍 Location: President Wilson Hotel Ballroom, Geneva
🔗 More info: bit.ly/LC2025launch
#LancetYouth
Reposted by Centre for Adolescent Health
Policy makers, researchers, youth leaders: Join us to transform adolescent health & wellbeing!
Lancet Commission report launch, May 21, Geneva.
In-person and Online.
More info: bit.ly/LC2025launch
#AdolescentHealth #WHA78 #Healthpolicy #PublicHealth #Science4Policy @thelancet.bsky.social
Lancet Commission report launch, May 21, Geneva.
In-person and Online.
More info: bit.ly/LC2025launch
#AdolescentHealth #WHA78 #Healthpolicy #PublicHealth #Science4Policy @thelancet.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Policy makers, researchers, youth leaders: Join us to transform adolescent health & wellbeing!
Lancet Commission report launch, May 21, Geneva.
In-person and Online.
More info: bit.ly/LC2025launch
#AdolescentHealth #WHA78 #Healthpolicy #PublicHealth #Science4Policy @thelancet.bsky.social
Lancet Commission report launch, May 21, Geneva.
In-person and Online.
More info: bit.ly/LC2025launch
#AdolescentHealth #WHA78 #Healthpolicy #PublicHealth #Science4Policy @thelancet.bsky.social
Policy makers, researchers, youth leaders: Join us to transform adolescent health & wellbeing!
Lancet Commission report launch, May 21, Geneva.
In-person and Online.
More info: bit.ly/LC2025launch
#AdolescentHealth #WHA78 #Healthpolicy #PublicHealth #Science4Policy @thelancet.bsky.social
Lancet Commission report launch, May 21, Geneva.
In-person and Online.
More info: bit.ly/LC2025launch
#AdolescentHealth #WHA78 #Healthpolicy #PublicHealth #Science4Policy @thelancet.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Policy makers, researchers, youth leaders: Join us to transform adolescent health & wellbeing!
Lancet Commission report launch, May 21, Geneva.
In-person and Online.
More info: bit.ly/LC2025launch
#AdolescentHealth #WHA78 #Healthpolicy #PublicHealth #Science4Policy @thelancet.bsky.social
Lancet Commission report launch, May 21, Geneva.
In-person and Online.
More info: bit.ly/LC2025launch
#AdolescentHealth #WHA78 #Healthpolicy #PublicHealth #Science4Policy @thelancet.bsky.social
Reposted by Centre for Adolescent Health
Only one week to go until the launch of the Second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing! Catch the event live at the World Health Assembly, 21 May #WHA78 lnkd.in/dy6vtKGW
@who.int @thelancet.bsky.social @fondationbotnar.bsky.social @drtedros.who.int @gatesfoundation.bsky.social
@who.int @thelancet.bsky.social @fondationbotnar.bsky.social @drtedros.who.int @gatesfoundation.bsky.social
May 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Only one week to go until the launch of the Second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing! Catch the event live at the World Health Assembly, 21 May #WHA78 lnkd.in/dy6vtKGW
@who.int @thelancet.bsky.social @fondationbotnar.bsky.social @drtedros.who.int @gatesfoundation.bsky.social
@who.int @thelancet.bsky.social @fondationbotnar.bsky.social @drtedros.who.int @gatesfoundation.bsky.social
So excited for the global launch of "A call to action: the second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing" at #WHA2025.
📅 Date: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
⏰ Time: 18:00 – 20:00 CEST
📍 Location: President Wilson Hotel Ballroom, Geneva
🔗 More info: bit.ly/LC2025launch
#LancetYouth
📅 Date: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
⏰ Time: 18:00 – 20:00 CEST
📍 Location: President Wilson Hotel Ballroom, Geneva
🔗 More info: bit.ly/LC2025launch
#LancetYouth
May 14, 2025 at 11:52 AM
So excited for the global launch of "A call to action: the second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing" at #WHA2025.
📅 Date: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
⏰ Time: 18:00 – 20:00 CEST
📍 Location: President Wilson Hotel Ballroom, Geneva
🔗 More info: bit.ly/LC2025launch
#LancetYouth
📅 Date: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
⏰ Time: 18:00 – 20:00 CEST
📍 Location: President Wilson Hotel Ballroom, Geneva
🔗 More info: bit.ly/LC2025launch
#LancetYouth
The Centre for Adolescent Health contributes to a growing bank of #adolescenthealth research & provides #education opportunities. We work to ensure that better health for this generation transforms into better health for all future generations.
Learn more: www.rch.org.au/cah
#research
Learn more: www.rch.org.au/cah
#research
March 28, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The Centre for Adolescent Health contributes to a growing bank of #adolescenthealth research & provides #education opportunities. We work to ensure that better health for this generation transforms into better health for all future generations.
Learn more: www.rch.org.au/cah
#research
Learn more: www.rch.org.au/cah
#research
“Adolescence is a time of unique growth and opportunity. Good health and wellbeing in adolescence brings benefits across the life-course and into the next generation” - The Centre for Adolescent Health
#AdolescentHealth #GlobalAdolescentHealth #Research
#AdolescentHealth #GlobalAdolescentHealth #Research
March 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
“Adolescence is a time of unique growth and opportunity. Good health and wellbeing in adolescence brings benefits across the life-course and into the next generation” - The Centre for Adolescent Health
#AdolescentHealth #GlobalAdolescentHealth #Research
#AdolescentHealth #GlobalAdolescentHealth #Research