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

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

Department

Global Health

Link to Full Text

Share

COinS