Senior management

Education and training

The Centre for Adolescent Health, through the Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne, offers a range of online postgraduate courses. Visit the page for further information. 

Subject coordinators

• Andrea Krelle
• Bern Murphy
• Hillary Field
• Kristina Bennett
  
• Louise Boucher
• Lucy Holland
• Phillipa Bellemore
• Toni Lindsay
• Dr Jen Dam
• Michael Cameron 
• Cristina De Nicholás

Communications 

Youth Consultants

Working as youth consultants with our Centre of Research Excellence for Driving Global Investment in Adolescent Health. To learn more visit https://blogs.rch.org.au/cah/2022/06/06/cre-youth-advocates-team/.

Global Adolescent Health

The world now has the largest group of young people there will ever be on the planet. How they grow during the adolescent years will affect not only their own health later in life but the contribution they will make to their societies in the future. Our studies describe these changing patterns of health and growth as countries undergo major transitions economically, nutritionally, demographically and epidemiologically. Visit the Global Health page to learn more.

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\ Prof Peter Azzopardi GAH Group Leader	Prof Susan Sawyer CAH Director	Dr Marie Habito  Postdoctoral Fellow
Molly O'Sullivan Program Manager	Luo Li PhD candidate	Karly Cini PhD Candidate / Research Assistant
Laura Dunstan Senior Research Officer	Minh Pham Senior Research Fellow

Adolescent Responsive Health Systems 

As part of the UN’s agenda to make 'every school a health promoting school', CAH contributed to developing the first ever Global Standards for HPS and an accompanying Implementation Guidance. Visit the Health Promoting Schools page to learn more.

Socially Excluded Adolescents

Justice Health

Young people and adults who come into contact with the criminal justice system are among society’s most vulnerable. They are distinguished by a high prevalence of complex, co-occurring health problems, typically set against a backdrop of entrenched disadvantage. Visit the Justice Health page to learn more.

Population Studies of adolescents

2000 stories

The 2000 Stories project is a landmark longitudinal study spanning almost 30 years. It is comprised of two studies, the original Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort (VAHCS) Study – which recruited 2000 year 9 students in 1992; and the Victorian Intergenerational Health Cohort Study (VIHCS) study, which recruited children from the original participants.

The Child to Adult Transition Study (CATS)

CATS is a unique longitudinal study following over 1200 children as they transition through puberty to adolescence and from primary school to secondary. 

Honorary staff

• Belinda Tomic
  
• Delyse Hutchinson
• Dot Dumuid
• Elissa Kennedy
  
• Holly Erskine
  
• Jennifer Marino
  
• Jenny Proimos
• Jesse Young
  
• John Toumbourou
  
• Lindsey Hines
• Liz Spry
  
• Nick Allen
• Nicola Reavley
  
• Sam Van Staalduuinen
  
• Shinya Fujikawa
• Tim Slade
  
  

Visiting scholars

• Yunfei Liu
  

To see the full list, please visit the CAH International Fellows page.

Students

• Dongmei Luo
  
• Ebony Biden
• Farnaz Sabet
  
• Heidi Renner
• Jackson Newberry-Dupe 
  
• Karly Cini
• Luo Li
• Margaretha

To see the full list, please visit the CAH Student Project page.

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