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A new study, “Building the foundations for sustainable development: a case for global investment in the capabilities of adolescents”, published yesterday in The Lancet, shows that investments in adolescent health and wellbeing are some of the best that can be made towards achieving the SDGs.

The Lancet Commission and the UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti, are very pleased to announce a new series of seven briefs on how to conduct research with adolescents in low- and middle- income countries.

April 7 is #WorldHealthDay, this years theme is Depression.

The Independent Accountability Panel (IAP) for Every Woman, Every Child, Every Adolescent welcomes contributions for its 2017 report on the theme of Accountability to Adolescents’ Health and Human Rights by 31 March.

Enrol in the Global Adolescent Health course!

YouthPower Learning Grants Requests for Applications

New resources from IAP, YouthPower, UNFPA, UNICEF.

Former US First lady Michelle Obama, advocating post-secondary education in the US as part of her final speech as first lady.

Introducing the Education Commission. Read their report here.

For the first time, suicide has replaced car accidents as the leading cause of death for adolescents aged between 10 and 14 years in the U.S.A