It is widely acknowledged that adolescence is a defining stage – a window of opportunity to ensure young people enter adulthood healthy, empowered and with the agency to achieve. It is also the most effective moment to challenge discriminatory gender roles, values or norms.
By bringing together the often disparate worlds of adolescent biological, behavioural and cognitive science with international development research and practice, this webinar will explore the key stages of adolescence and how this can inform successful and scalable interventions.
During this one-hour webinar, you will be given exclusive access to key findings and hear from experts working in behavioural science and gender norms on how, and why, they came together to produce the report: Age&Stage.
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Robert (Bob) Blum
MD, MPH, PhD, Emeritus William H. Gates, Sr. Professor Bloomberg School of Public Health and Director of John Hopkins Urban Health Institute Blum is the lead researcher on the Global Early Adolescent Study—a study of 10 to 14 year olds in 15 countries. Prior to that he has lead a number of major international and US-based Studies. He is a frequent consultant to the World Bank, UNICEF, the United Nations Population Fund and the World Health Organization.
His previous roles include: President of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, member of the American Board of Pediatrics and a chair of the Guttmacher Institute Board of Directors and of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Adolescent Health and Development. He is also the immediate past chair of the Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Katherine Nichol
Director of Gender at Girl Effect Katherine Nichol has built her career working at the intersection of gender equality, international development and adolescent girls’ issues. Currently the Director of Gender at Girl Effect, Katherine works with a technical team across multiple countries to leverage best practice and theory on what works for girls and apply it to Girl Effect’s media brands and digital products. Katherine has gender technical oversight of Girl Effect’s digital brand, Springster, which has reached over 26 million adolescent girls in over 65 countries – a website for girls, by girls, tackling isolation by building a community-centric experience. Prior to Girl Effect, Katherine spent the majority of her career working at Plan International in a range of roles – leading Plan’s work in refugee camps in Rwanda, supporting the global programme stream of Plan’s Because I am a Girl campaign and rolling out Plan’s institutional gender mainstreaming strategy.
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Dr Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli
MBBS, MSc, Scientist, Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization
Dr. Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli works on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) in the World Health Organization’s Department of Reproductive Health and Research (which includes the UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Human Reproductive Programme).
His experience in generating knowledge and taking knowledge to action is global in scope and spans over 25 years. He joined WHO in early-1993 and worked on HIV/AIDS prevention till mid-1996. Since then, his work has focussed on adolescent health. Over the last twenty-three years, he has led or contributed substantially to a number of the World Health Organization’s publications in addition to having authored/co-authored 3 books, 7 book chapters, 13 newsletter articles and 65 peer-reviewed journal articles (as of May 2017).
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