The long and the short of luggage. Travelling to Cape Town with Pete Azzopardi and Molly O'Sullivan. And mine? In between of course! Centre for Adolescent Health (CAH)

Day 1 of my working week in Cape Town working up the 2nd Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health. Today we are meeting to discuss South African subnational data on adolescents. Thanks to Pete Azzopardi and Doc Shakira Choonara for their expert chairing. The Lancet Youth

Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health co-chairs Sarah Baird and Alex Ezeh welcome our youth commissioners to the first of two days of meetings - with another 2 days of peer review to follow. An intense week ahead in Cape Town.

We received >900 applications from young people to be a youth reviewer for the 2nd Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health. Here in Cape Town, Jonta, Hamaiyal, Nojus, Nikita, Vinicius & Shatyam have made valuable contributions to the draft report over the past few days. Thank-you.

Great discussions in Cape Town from our The Lancet Youth commissioners. Thanks Doc Shakira Choonara Centre for Adolescent Health (CAH)

Catching up with friends and colleagues is always such a rewarding part of face to face meetings. Lovely to be with Jason Nagata, MD Surabhi Dogra Caroline Kabiru here in Cape Town for The Lancet Youth

This is us! Working hard in Cape Town at the peer review meeting of the 2nd Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health.

Winderful to experience & see the journey of this #LancetCommission from having 2 young commissioners in the 1st segment to engaging 6+ youth commissioners & reviewers in its 2nd segment. It’s a commendable effort in meaningful #youthengagement. Can’t wait to read the report!

Dakki, it was so great to have had your - and Kiki's - input into the original 2016 Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing. Thank-you. The extent of youth participation feels an order of magnitude more advanced this time around. Kikelomo Taiwo-Idowu

Great contribution from the group of you - thank you all!

So pleased to have your engagement in the 2nd Lancet commission on adolescent health Jonta Kamara, MPH - thankyou for your valuable contribution.

Thanks so much for joining us Prerna Banati - and for your continued engagement. Lots of work ahead! The Lancet Youth

Warmest congratulations Marleen. Just delighted to hear this Marleen Temmerman, MBS, MD, MPH, PhD Aga Khan University

Shocked? I don't think so. Richly deserved, my friend. Occasionally people do get what they deserve. Well done Ghazaleh Dashti Clinical Epi & Biostatistics Unit (CEBU) Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) Centre for Adolescent Health (CAH)

Thanks to my fabulous colleagues at Centre for Adolescent Health (CAH) Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) UniMelb MDHS The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne for all your hard work this past year. Best wishes for 2024. Susan

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Introducing a new seminar series from the Centre of Research Excellence for Driving Global Investment in Adolescent Health: Advancing Adolescent Health in the Asia Pacific - A virtual community to share knowledge & support collaboration! Learn more here: blogs.rch.org.au/cah/2024/01/15…

We are thrilled to have Dr Evelyn Wong rejoin our team as a Deputy Chief Health Officer. Evelyn is a brilliant leader in the science of public health medicine. She brings humility, deep expertise and good humour to all her work #WomenInScience

If your research is with marginalised/ excluded groups & the thought of the ethics process makes you shudder, you may find our paper useful! Victoria Stead Susan Sawyer AM Jo Watson Kate Anderson Dr Amie O'Shea #AAC #CerebralPalsy journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/16…

What terrific news Mina Fazel. Warmest congratulations. Proud to be a coauthor with you. George would have been so delighted too.