News

Introducing Yerp – an interactive toolkit of information to support one big idea – that young people have an important role in shaping the present and future.

Dr Carmen Barroso announces her retirement from the Directorship of the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (IPPF/WHR), for March 2016.

The United Nations, the World Bank Group, and the Governments of Canada, Norway and the United States joined country and global health leaders on July 13 to launch the Global Financing Facility (GFF) in support of Every Woman Every Child.

Congratulations Ellen Chesler and Terry McGovern (one of our Lancet Commissioners) on the publication of “Women and Girls Rising – Progress and resistance around the world”.

This eleventh edition of Progress for Children Beyond Averages: Learning from the MDGs (No. 11) is UNICEF’s final report on the child-related Millennium Development Goals.

‘A second chance in the second decade’ is an interactive, online report that describes why adolescents need specific attention, distinct from children and adults.

The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change maps out the impacts of climate change, and the necessary policy responses, to ensure the highest attainable standards of health for populations worldwide.

A new World Health Organization report has found that suicide is the leading cause of death worldwide for girls between the ages of 15 and 19.

New research has found that 85% of women who experienced perinatal depression had a history of mental health problems, usually starting in their adolescent years.

New initiative to facilitate leadership in the field of positive youth development, funded by USAID.

Don’t forget that feedback for the Zero Draft of the Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health is due Friday 5th June 2015.

Lancet Youth Commissioner, Professor Susan Sawyer, appointed The Geoff and Helen Handbury Chair of Adolescent Health.