Projects

One aim of the CRE for Driving Global Investment in Adolescent Health is to deliver research that drives investment in neglected areas of adolescent health including groups experiencing significant discrimination or disadvantage specifically, Indigenous young people and young people in contact with the justice system.

Neglected areas of adolescent health include mental health, non-communicable disease risk, injury and violence and substance use.

The CREs research streams are designed to drive a cycle of accountability across neglected areas of adolescent health globally; in priority adolescent groups in Australia; and in two partner countries, China and Indonesia, both of which have large adolescent populations. 

CRE work streams | health topics

CRE work streams | priority population groups

CRE work stream | health economic modelling

CRE work streams | country partners

Additional global adolescent health initiatives

In 2017 the Lancet proposed a Lancet Standing Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing with the following objectives:

  • Continuing momentum globally and at the country level for comprehensive and integrated approaches to adolescent health and take forward the recommendations from the 2016 report, Our future: a Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing
  • Maintaining the visibility of adolescent health including neglected areas (e.g., nutrition, mental health and injury) and neglected groups (Indigenous young people, adolescents in contact with the justice system).
  • Map progress in adolescent health and wellbeing including investments globally and nationally. 
  • Provide mechanisms for addressing the barriers to progress
  • Extend the evidence base for cost-effective and scalable action in adolescent health at both global and national levels. 

Current initiatives include a Lancet series on adolescent nutrition (2021), analyses of future NCD risks (2022), analyses of injury disease burden and investment cases (2022) and a Lancet series on adolescent indigenous health (2023). For further information, please visit the Standing Commission webpage.