News

15 May 2025

The Future Healthy Countdown 2030 (a collaboration led by ARACY, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth) and Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI)) is now seeking expressions of interest for research papers for its upcoming Supplement to the Medical Journal of Australia (MJA).

15 May 2025

Register before July 1 to take advantage of the early bird rates.

12 May 2025

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)are seeking young peer educators to be part of a consultation to develop a new national Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) Data Framework.

11 May 2025

BMC Health Services Research is calling for submissions to our Collection, Improving health literacy to reduce health inequalities. Due 12 September!

07 May 2025

Youth Action is inviting members to our next Youth Sector Meeting on Tuesday 21 May, from 10:00am to 11:30am via Zoom.

07 May 2025

ARCD are now seeking community feedback on the draft project plan. Please share your feedback on the draft project plan by COB Friday 23 May 2025.

03 April 2025

Join all of us at AAAH in congratulating our esteemed colleague, Professor Melissa Kang, on being re-elected to the International Association for Adolescent Health (IAAH) Council for a second term.

03 April 2025

AAAH joins the Clinical Trials: Impact & Quality Steering Committee run by Bellberry Limited. This group aims to develop and implement recommendations that will improve the impact, quality and efficiency of clinical trials, leading to more rapid, lower cost and higher quality evaluation of healthcare interventions in Australia.

27 March 2025

To find out what is in the budget in relation to young people and health, we've collated budget papers and analysis in relation to the federal 2025-26 Budget.

21 March 2025

AAAH Board member, Dr Rebecca Raeside with Dr Violeta Iotova, are guest editing a collection in BMC Pediatrics titled ‘Lifestyle habits and their impact on children and adolescents’ health’.

21 March 2025

Will You Stand Against Discrimination? Go rainbow on the International Day Against LGBTQIA+ Discrimination! We can all make a difference, now more than ever.

20 March 2025

As well as university-accredited post graduate programs, the Centre for Adolescent Health has developed an innovative online short-course.

06 March 2025

In February 2025, AAAH and members presented on Developing Health Policy with and for Young People to 700 staff at the federal Department of Health and Aged Care.

20 February 2025

The Centre for Adolescent Heath's new Master’s specialisation was Nationally launched on Tuesday 12th November at the Australian Association for Adolescent Health (AAAH) conference in Brisbane, Australia.

21 January 2025

On behalf of AAAH and our network we extend our deepest condolences for the passing of Professor Glenn Bowes, the inaugural director of the Centre for Adolescent Health (1991-97), who died in mid January after a long illness. He was an influential and transformative leader in the field of adolescent health and medicine in Australia.

01 January 2025

Will you help us shape our advocacy on youth engagement in health research, policy and practice?

01 January 2025

AAAH are developing a policy brief to summarise the main messages, research and examples to highlight why, how and the impact of the way young people are involved and talked about youth health and wellbeing research, policy, advocacy and practice.

01 January 2025

Applications open soon for the George Patton Postdoctoral Fellowship in Adolescent Health. This new and exciting Fellowship will enable the Centre for Adolescent Health to appoint three postdocs for three years at a time over the next nine years, with the goal of continuing the late Professor George Patton’s extraordinary research legacy.

15 November 2024

Planning Saw through Global Health Youth Connect (GHYC), where he has consistently demonstrated outstanding leadership, advocacy, and a strong commitment to collaboration.

15 November 2024

Dr Bianca Forrester is a GP with a special interest in young people’s health. GP and teaching specialist at the University of Melbourne, Dept of GP. Clinical training Manager for the Vic state gov's "Doctors in Secondary schools" program.

13 May 2024

National Volunteer Week, we take a moment to acknowledge the hard work and dedication of our wonderful volunteers. We have our Board of Directors, lead by Dr Cristyn Davies (PhD), who are actively engaged behind the scenes to support our sustainability and governance as an organisation as well as providing strategic advice to support our ongoing advocacy to elevate youth health and wellbeing. Collectively, the Board represent our diverse member groups including young people, researchers, clinicians, health professionals and policy makers. Read their profiles on the AAAH team page and join me in thanking them for helping to make AAAH what it is today.

24 April 2024

This month AAAH is taking its Pre-Budget submission key message to Canberra: Increase funding and focus on adolescent health and wellbeing as a preventive health measure. Support young people now as well as circumvent the adult burden of disease later in life.

25 September 2023

In an open letter to the Australian public, AAAH ltd joins 125+ other leading health organisations to highlight that saying Yes to the Voice is supporting better health outcomes for first nations people.

21 August 2023

On 17 August, AAAH was invited to present a webinar on 'Adolescent Health and Wellbeing: Let's not waste a second chance' to staff across the federal Department of Health and Aged Care.

07 August 2023

We are joining health care workers across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand calling for action.

11 July 2023

Thank you to AAAH members who joined our first members-only forum with the Youth & LGBTIQA+ teams at the Department of Health's Health Equity Branch.

30 June 2023

At AAAH, we love keeping you up-to-date with the latest information on youth health and wellbeing.  Check out the new Resources sections for updated information.

29 May 2023

Meet Grace.

21 April 2023

A Step Toward Self-Determination, Recognition, and Reconciliation

15 April 2023

The AAAH team headed to Canberra in early April to promote the need to invest more in adolescent health

12 December 2022

The Board and staff at AAAH express our deep sadness at the passing of Professor George Patton on 7 December 2022. George was a longstanding member and supporter of AAAH, and was a friend and mentor to several AAAH Board directors and members over the years.

09 November 2022

Two winners announced for a Youth Health Lifetime Achievement Award

09 November 2022

At the 2022 Youth Health Conference in Melbourne, we announced Aidan as the winner of the

23 April 2021

The AAAH advocates for meaningful engagement and consultation with young people in all Australian jurisdictions to inform reviews and policy responses about sexual consent.

03 December 2020