Child and Youth Health SIG

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The objectives of the Child and Youth Health Special Interest Group are to:

  • Provide a focal point for discussion of and action on child and youth health and wellbeing issues
  • Provide targeted support and advocacy for marginalised and disadvantaged children, young people and their families who are at greater risk of poorer health outcomes
  • Respond to emerging and ongoing issues relevant to child and youth health primarily through generating evidence-based position statements and policies supporting the work of other PHAA SIGs and child and youth organisations
  • Ensure that child and youth health is represented in the affairs of the Public Health Association of Australia
  • Ensure that the voices expressed by children and young people, and for the health of children and young people is represented in the affairs of the Public Health Association of Australia

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Child and Youth Health SIG Committee:

 

Co-Convenor: Dr Cristyn Davies
Email: [email protected]

 Dr Cristyn Davies is a Research Fellow in the Specialty of Child and Adolescent Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney Children’s Hospital Westmead Clinical School. She is also an adjunct at the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University. Cristyn is President of the Australian Association for Adolescent Health, and a member of the University of Sydney’s Infectious Diseases Institute. Cristyn has expertise in vaccination for young people, gender, sexuality, sexual and reproductive health, and knowledge translation and implementation science. She is committed to using evidence-based research to close the gap between research and its translation into policy and practice.

 

Co-Convenor: Dr Stephanie Partridge
Email: [email protected]

Dr Stephanie Partridge is a Sydney Horizon Fellow and National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow at the University of Sydney. Her research is focused on harnessing digital technologies to create healthy societies and to improve the health of young people. She committed to conducting studies that are relevant to young people and aim to achieve this by involving them actively in all phases of research. Stephanie is also the co-chair of the International Association for Adolescent Health Emerging Professionals Network.

 

 

 Committee: Mary Brushe (Treasurer); Dr Lucas Calais Ferreira (committe member); Dr Catharine Fleming (committee member); Elisha Golding (committee member); Rebecca Hammond (Children’s Voice Strategy Coordinator); Associate Professor Clare Littleton (committee member); Dr Sophie Manoy (Social Media Coordinator); Aurelie Pankowiak (committee member); Dr Fiona Robards (committee member); Emma Stubbs (committee member); Nicole Wickens (member engagement coordinator).

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