An Australian Centre of Research Excellence (CRE) for “Driving Global Investment in Adolescent Health” has been funded by Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council from March 2020 through to February 2025. The CRE led by the team at the Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, brings together leading Australian research groups including the University of Melbourne, the Burnet Institute, University of New South Wales, South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, University of South Australia and the University of Queensland. It brings together existing partnerships locally, nationally and globally, generated through the work of the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing and will extend partnerships with Peking University, China and Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia.
Aims
- To generate research to drive investment in neglected areas of adolescent health (mental health, non-communicable diseases (NCD) and NCD risks, injury and violence and substance use) in groups experiencing significant discrimination or disadvantage, specifically
- Indigenous young people
- Young people in contact with the justice system
- To promote effective translation of research into health policy and practice
- To grow early career researchers in adolescent health to develop their research skills and achieve high level outputs
What is a CRE?
The Centres of Research Excellence (CRE) scheme provides support for teams of researchers to pursue collaborative research and develop capacity in clinical research, health services research and public health research.
The objective of the CRE scheme is to improve health outcomes and promote or improve translation of research outcomes into policy and/or practice. The CRE scheme also supports researchers in capacity building activities, including in specific areas of need identified by NHMRC. Read more.
- Measure adolescent health better
- Investigate what works for preventing and responding to adolescent health challenges
- Estimate the cost of these actions
- Understand how such investments might be taken to scale
This CRE has a focus on secondary data analysis (data that has previously been gathered and can be accessed by researchers). The work will include syntheses of existing evidence, data analyses of existing primary data and economic modelling to provide policy recommendations for investment.