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This final visit of DFAT Australian Awards Fellows built on the momentum of the February 2025 workshop, with Fellows returning to Melbourne to progress and refine their collaborative research papers developed from the Longitudinal Cohort Study on the Filipino Child (LCSFC).

Through our DFAT AAF program, Prof. Pete Azzopardi and Dr. Marie Habito travelled to the Philippines to support regional collaboration and evidence-informed action in adolescent health.

In February 2025, the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) welcomed 15 Fellows from the Philippines for the first engagement of the DFAT Australia Awards Fellowship.

To drive responsive actions for adolescent health in the Philippines, we’re hosting 15 researchers from the Longitudinal Cohort Study on the Filipino Child (LCSFC) to better inform policy in the Philippines.

The Human Sciences Research Council hosted a meeting of the second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing in Cape Town, South Africa, from December 4 to 8, 2023.

Meeting Children Where They Are: Perspectives on Data Re-Use from the Youth Solutions Labs

Starting 2024 – a new seminar series “Advancing Adolescent Health in the Asia Pacific: A virtual community to share knowledge and support collaboration.”

This work highlights the effect of nutrition on adolescent growth and development, the role the food environment has on food choices, and which strategies and interventions might lead to healthy adolescent nutrition and growth.

The Centre for Adolescent Health was proud to join and launch the Parliamentary Friends of Global Health event on Thursday 7 September in Canberra, Australia.

Calling all 18-30-year-olds! The Second Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing is looking for five experts to serve on the multi-disciplinary youth review board!

The African Population and Health Research Center recently hosted a meeting of the Second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing in Nairobi, Kenya, from May 9 to 11, 2023.

Are you between the ages of 16 and 20? Would you like to make a difference in your community? Apply now to help set the global adolescent health and wellbeing agenda for 2024!