Background
The
Centre for Adolescent Health is a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Adolescent Health. We were engaged by WHO and UNESCO to review current policies and
evidence, and to develop new global standards, indicators, and an
implementation guidance for Health Promoting Schools (HPS) as part of
their initiative "making every school as health promoting school.”
This work involved a series of
discrete yet related projects. It has been informed by several rounds of
peer review by WHO, UNESCO and other UN organizations, an internal advisory
committee of experts that the CAH convened and an international consultation process. This led to
several related projects in the area of whole-school approaches to health and
wellbeing and the health and education interface.
Completed projects
Ongoing projects
- A related project, funded through
a University of Melbourne India School Education Engagement grant (2020), is a
case study of implementation of a school-based health program in Bihar, India (Leads:
Susan Sawyer, Sachin Shinde, Monika Raniti)
- A related project, funded by the Wellcome
Trust, on the role of school connectedness in depression and anxiety in young
people (lead: Monika Raniti)
Our Team
The team is comprised of researchers
and practitioners who have a broad interest and expertise in the intersection
between health and education (e.g., school health services, health promoting
schools, school-based health interventions).
Lead: Professor Susan Sawyer
Postdoctoral Researcher: Dr
Monika Raniti
Public Health and Health
Promotion specialist: Ms Kristina Bennett
Education and Evaluation
specialist: Dr Ruth Aston (Centre for Program Evaluation, Melbourne Graduate
School of Education, University of Melbourne)
Consultant: Ms Cristina de Nicolás Izquierdo
Communications specialist: Ms Molly O'Sullivan
Research Assistants
Ms Ella Cehun
Ms Monika Fridgant
Ms Anna Ross
Ms Catherine Waters
Past Volunteers and
Interns
Ms Manon Duay
Ms Catherine Waters
Students
Aneta Bandilovska (Honours student) and Dr Erin Hoare (Masters student)
Linked research projects
- Doctoral Student: Dr Margaretha
Margaretha, Use of curriculum in Indonesian schools to advance mental health,
(Airlangga University, Indonesia)
- Post-doctoral Student: Dr
Peijin Hu, Evaluation of China’s school preventive health services (Peking
University Institute of Child and Adolescent Health)
Internal Advisory Group
Ms Israt Jahan Baki, Dr Helen
Butler, Ms Andrea Krelle, Dr Lisa Mundy, Professor George Patton, A/Prof Nicola
Reavley, Dr Jenny Proimos, Dr Anitra Wierenga, Dr Sachin Shinde, and Dr Jon
Quach
Collaborators
- WHO
- UNESCO
- University of Melbourne
- Harvard University and Sangath, India (Dr Sachin
Shinde and Professor Vikram Patel)
Funding
- WHO
- The University of Melbourne (India School
Education Engagement grant)
- Handbury Family Trust, MCRI
- Wellcome Trust
Making every school a health-promoting school reports
Making every school a health-promoting school – Global standards and indicators
Spanish: Hacer que todas las escuelas sean promotoras
de la salud. Pautas e indicadores mundiales
Portuguese: Transformar cada escola em uma escola
promotora de saúde: Padrões e indicadores globais
Making every school a health-promoting school – Implementation Guidance
Making every school a health-promoting school – Country case studies
WHO guideline on school health services
Key publications
Sawyer, S. M., Raniti, M., & Aston, R. (2021). Making every school a health-promoting school. The Lancet. Child & adolescent health, S2352-4642(21)00190-5. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-4642(21)00190-5
Raniti, M., Aston, R., Bennett, K., de Nicolás, C., Fridgant, M., Cehun, E., Sawyer, S.M. (2020). Global Standards and Indicators for Health Promoting Schools. Melbourne: Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.
Aston, R., Raniti, M., Bennett, K., de Nicolás, C., Fridgant, M., Cehun, E., Sawyer, S.M. (2020). Global Implementation Guidance for Health Promoting Schools. Melbourne: Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.
Bennett,
K., Raniti, M., de Nicolás, C., Cehun, E., Waters, C., Fridgant, M., Sawyer,
S.M. (2020). A global review of policy, standards and guideline documentation
for Health Promoting Schools. Melbourne: Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch
Children’s Research Institute. (in press)
Raniti,
M., Fridgant, M., Ross, A., de Nicolás, C., Bennett, K., Cehun, E., Reavley,
N., Sawyer, S.M. (2020). A systematic review of the enablers and barriers of
Health Promoting Schools. Melbourne: Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch
Children’s Research Institute. (in press)
Key presentations
- March 2020, Global consultation of HPS evidence
reviews with WHO and UNESCO external advisory group
- July 2020, India School Engagement Grant
workshop, University of Melbourne
-
Sept 2020, Professional
development session to Mental Health Practitioners in secondary schools for the
Victorian Department of Education and Training
- June 2021, Launch by WHO and UNESCO of Global Standards and
Indicators of Health Promoting Schools and Systems
- July 2021, Global
Health Forum, Melbourne Children's Campus
Media
Podcast
MJA Podcasts 2021 Episode 24: Health Promoting Schools, with Prof
Susan Sawyer, Dr Monika Raniti and Dr Ruth Aston | Podcast
Further information
For further information,
please contact Dr Monika Raniti.