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
  

Communications and support

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.

School Health

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.

Health Equity

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.

Communities that Care Australia (CTC) / International Youth Development Study (IYDS)

CTC is an evidence-based process implemented at the community level to reduce youth health and behaviour problems and promote healthy development. IYDS is a long-term study that began 2002, that looks at the development of healthy and problem behaviours among young people in the state of Victoria, Australia, and the state of Washington, United States.

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.     

Australian Temperament Project (ATP)

The ATP is a three generation longitudinal study of social and emotional development that has followed over 2000 Young Australians and their families from infancy to adulthood over 15 waves since 1983 (Generation 1 and 2), and over 1000 offspring cohort offspring (Generation 3) since 2012.

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

• Aaron Wiggins
• Belinda Tomic
  
• Claire Burton
• Delyse Hutchinson
• Dot Dumuid
• Elissa Kennedy
• Eliza Schioldann
  
• George Youssef
• Holly Erskine
  
• Jennifer Marino
  
• Jenny Proimos
• Jesse Young
• Jessica Heerde
• Joanne Williams
• Joe Ward
• John Toumbourou
• Kristina Bennett
• Lindsey Hines
• Lis Spry
  
• Louisa Degenhardt
• Matt Farrugia
  
• Nathan Hughes
• Nick Allen
• Nicola Reavley
• Peijin Hu
• Sam Van Staalduuinen
• Heidi Renner
• Sheryl Hemphill
• Shinya Fujikawa
• Tim Slade
• Ying Song

Visiting scholars

• Prof Tianjio Chen
  
• Dr Leelaraprin Chongwatanswat
  

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

Students

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

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

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