Our team

  • Senior management

    Professor Susan Sawyer

    Susan_Sawyer 

    Director, Centre for Adolescent Health

    E: susan.sawyer@rch.org.au

    Professor Peter Azzopardi

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    Scientific Director, Global Adolescent Health
    E: peter.azzopardi@mcri.edu.au 

    Professor Craig Olsson

    Craig-Olsson 

    Scientific Director, Population Studies
    E: Craig.Olsson@rch.org.au 

    Associate Professor Jess Heerde

    Jess_Heerde 

    Group Leader, Socially Excluded Adolescents

    E: jessica.heerde@unimelb.edu.au  

    Laura Griffith

    Laura_Griffith

    Department Coordinator

    E: laura.griffith@rch.org.au 



    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. 

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    Dr  Anitra Wierenga
    T: +61 3 9345 6676 

    Helen D Administrator

    Helen D'Cruz
     T: +61 39345 6671  

    Masters Coordinator 

     Kristina Bennet

    E: kbe@unimelb.edu.au

    Subject coordinators

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

    Communications and project support

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    Molly O'Sullivan

    Senior Project Officer

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    Chloe Hunter

    Project Assistant

    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/.

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    Angelica Ojinnaka

    Diandra

    Dr Diandra Priambodo

    Ivy

    Ivy Craw

    Jasmine

    Dr Jasmine Elliot

    Luo_Li

    Luo Li

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    Sophia Garlick Bock

    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

    Susan_Sawyer 

    Prof Susan Sawyer

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    Dr Marie Habito 

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    Molly O'Sullivan

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    Luo Li

     Karly Cini
     Laura Dunstan    


    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.

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    Prof Susan Sawyer

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    Dr Monika Raniti

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    Dr Jen Dam 


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    Dr Ruth Aston



     

    Socially Excluded Adolescents


    Jess_Heerde 

    Associate Prof Jess Heerde

    Group Leader, Socially Excluded Adolescents

    E: jessica.heerde@unimelb.edu.au   

    Ziyao Ge 

    Research Assistant                                  

    Anton Lu

    Research Assistant                                                    


    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.

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    Prof Stuart Kinner

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    Alex Campbell

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    Clare Chiminchello

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    Lindsay Pearce 

    Lucas_Ferreira 

    Dr Lucas Calais Ferreira

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    Dr Rohan Borschmann

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    Rebecca Shuttleworth 

       

    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.

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    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





       


    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. 

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    Prof Susan Sawyer 

    CAH - Carolina Murphy

    Dr Carolina Murphy

    CAH - Louise Canterford

    Louise Canterford

    Nandi_Vijayakumar

    Dr Nandi Vijayakumar

    Ghazaleh 

    Dr Ghazaleh Dashsti

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    Dr Ellie May Robson

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    Hanafi Mohamad Husin

    Anthony Parissi

     



    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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