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.
Manager
Dr
Anitra Wierenga
T: +61 3 9345 6676
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Administrator
Helen D'Cruz
T: +61 39345 6671
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Masters Coordinator
Kristina Bennet
E: kbe@unimelb.edu.au
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Subject coordinators
- Andrea Krelle
- Bern Murphy
- Hillary Field
- Kristina Bennett
- Louise Boucher
- Lucy Holland
- Phillipa Bellemore
- Toni Lindsay
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Dr Jen Dam
Communications and project support
Molly O'Sullivan
Senior Project Officer
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Chloe Hunter
Project Assistant
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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/.
Angelica Ojinnaka
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Dr Diandra Priambodo
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Ivy Craw
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Dr Jasmine Elliot
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Luo Li
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Sophia Garlick Bock
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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
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Prof Susan Sawyer
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Dr Marie Habito
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Molly O'Sullivan
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Luo Li
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Karly Cini |
Laura Dunstan |
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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.
Prof Susan Sawyer
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Dr Monika Raniti
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Dr Jen Dam
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Dr Ruth Aston
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Socially Excluded Adolescents
Associate Prof Jess Heerde
Group Leader, Socially Excluded Adolescents
E: jessica.heerde@unimelb.edu.au
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Ziyao Ge
Research Assistant
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Anton Lu
Research Assistant
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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.
Prof Stuart Kinner
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Alex Campbell
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Clare Chiminchello
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Lindsay Pearce
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Dr Lucas Calais Ferreira
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Dr Rohan Borschmann
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Rebecca Shuttleworth
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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.

Prof Craig Olsson
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Dr Caroline Murphy
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Hanafi Mohamad Husin
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Dr Jess Kerr
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Ari Graf
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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.
Prof Susan Sawyer
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Dr Carolina Murphy
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Louise Canterford
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Dr Nandi Vijayakumar
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Dr Ghazaleh Dashsti
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Dr Ellie May Robson
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Hanafi Mohamad Husin
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Anthony Parissi
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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
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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