A call to action: the second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing

Authors

• Sarah Baird, Department of Global Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. Electronic address: sbaird@email.gwu.edu.
• Shakira Choonara, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• Peter S. Azzopardi, Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC Australia; Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Program, The Kids Research Institute of Australia, Perth, WA, Australia; National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
• Prerna Banati, Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health & Ageing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
• Judith Bessant, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
• Olivia Biermann, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Anthony Capon, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
• Mariam Claeson, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Pamela Y. Collins, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• Nicole De Wet-Billings, Academic Affairs, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• Surabhi Dogra, Emerging Professionals Network, International Association for Adolescent Health, Gautam Buddha Nagar, India.
• Yanhui Dong, Institute of Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China; National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health, Beijing, China.
• Kate L. Francis, Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC Australia.
• Luwam T. Gebrekristos, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• Allison K. Groves, Community Health and Prevention, Drexel Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• Simon I. Hay, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and Department of Health Metrics Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
• David Imbago-Jácome, Quito, Ecuador.
• Aaron P. Jenkins, Pacific Planetary Health Hub, Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia; Centre for People, Place and Planet, School of Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth, WA, Australia; Pacific Planetary Health Research Centre, Fiji Institute of Pacific Health Research, Fiji National University, Suva, Fiji.
• Caroline W. Kabiru, Sexual, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Unit, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya.
• Elissa C. Kennedy, Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia; Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health Program, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
• Luo Li, Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia; Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC Australia.
• Chunling Lu, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• Jun Ma, Institute of Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China; National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Reproductive Health, Beijing, China.
• Terry McGovern, City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy, New York, NY, USA.
• Augustina Mensa-Kwao, Department of Mental Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• Sanyu A. Mojola, Department of Sociology, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
• Jason M. Nagata, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• Adesola O. Olumide, Institute of Child Health, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria; University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.
• Olayinka Omigbodun, Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
• Molly O'Sullivan, Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
• Audrey Prost, Institute for Global Health, University College London, London, UK.
• Jennifer H. Requejo, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA; Global Financing Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents, World Bank, Washington DC, USA.

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

5-31-2025

Journal

Lancet (London, England)

Volume

405

Issue

10493

DOI

10.1016/S0140-6736(25)00503-3

APA Citation

Baird, Sarah; Choonara, Shakira; Azzopardi, Peter S.; Banati, Prerna; Bessant, Judith; Biermann, Olivia; Capon, Anthony; Claeson, Mariam; Collins, Pamela Y.; De Wet-Billings, Nicole; Dogra, Surabhi; Dong, Yanhui; Francis, Kate L.; Gebrekristos, Luwam T.; Groves, Allison K.; Hay, Simon I.; Imbago-Jácome, David; Jenkins, Aaron P.; Kabiru, Caroline W.; Kennedy, Elissa C.; Li, Luo; Lu, Chunling; Ma, Jun; McGovern, Terry; Mensa-Kwao, Augustina; Mojola, Sanyu A.; Nagata, Jason M.; Olumide, Adesola O.; Omigbodun, Olayinka; O'Sullivan, Molly; Prost, Audrey; and Requejo, Jennifer H., "A call to action: the second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing" (2025). GW Authored Works. Paper 7183.
https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/gwhpubs/7183

Department

Global Health