About This Unit
The unit focuses on improving health outcomes and services for young people during the adolescent and youth years, working across education, social service, and youth sectors to make existing health services more youth-friendly.
Key Activities
- Formulating strategic plans aligned with adolescent health program goals.
- Building advocacy with policymakers and stakeholders regarding adolescent-friendly health services.
- Fostering collaboration across education, social service, and youth sectors on multidisciplinary health matters.
- Developing and testing evidence-based interventions to integrate into existing service models.
- Conducting assessments and operational research on adolescent and youth health concerns.
- Enhancing capacity of health officers on making existing services friendly to young people.
- Providing technical expertise for programme planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Creating health communication materials tailored to this demographic.
- Facilitating knowledge-sharing on innovative service delivery practices.
- Chairing the Technical Advisory Committee on Young Persons' Health.