2016 Events

Events from the 2016 Lancet Commission

London, England

10 May 2016
A presentation by The Lancet
UCL, London, UK

Washington DC, USA

9 June 2016
A presentation by USAID, PEPFAR, YouthPower Learning, the World Bank, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and The Lancet
Kaiser Family Foundation, Washington DC, USA

Seattle, USA

15 June 2016

A presentation by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Gates Foundation, Seattle, USA

Melbourne, Australia

20 July 2016
A presentation by Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne
The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Boksburg, South Africa

29 September 2016
A presentation by the DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development and the Reproductive Health and HIV Institute of the University of Witwatersrand and HAYA (Healthy Adolescents & Young Adults) of the Africa Health Research Institute.
Birchwood Hotel Conference Centre, Boksburg

Beirut, Lebanon

13-14 December 2016
A presentation by the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the Arab Coalition for Adolescent Medicine
AUB, Beirut

Health for all adolescents webinar

On 1 Feb 2017, the American Public Health Association; The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health; the HHS Office of Adolescent Health, and The Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing hosted a webinar to provide the latest information on changing policy, economic, and environmental issues that shape adolescent health.

#LancetYouth Twitter Chat

In May 2016, the Lancet released ‘Our future: a Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing’ to shed light on the unparalleled challenges the 1.8 billion adolescents across the globe are now facing. Beyond sharing compelling data on the state of adolescent health, the report also emphasized the critical need to engage and empower young people as major investors in their own health and the health of all adolescents.