Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center

In The News

Title: The Lancet: Creating Healthy Pathways for Adolescents. School of Nursing Professor, Dr. Linda H. Bearinger, featured.

News: Linda H. Bearinger, PhD, RN, FAAN, FSAHM, Professor in the Schools of Nursing and Medicine, and Director of the Center for Adolescent Nursing, is featured in The Lancet. In addition to recently being highlighted for contributing to a special Lancet Series on adolescent health, she is also featured in the Perspectives Section of the current Lancet issue, volume 379, issue 9826, page 1581. Recognizing her 40+ years of service to young people, Bearinger’s career trajectory is described in the Lancet article, including her passion for teaching, her appointments with the Institute of Medicine and other global organizations, and her current position as President of the International Association for Adolescent Health.

To view the full article on Dr. Bearinger, please go to:
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2960664-3/fulltext <http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2960664-3/fulltext>

In addition to Bearinger being a featured contributor to the Lancet Series on adolescent health, Michael Resnick, PhD, FSAHM, Professor, and Gisela and E. Paul Konopka Chair in Adolescent Health and Development, Director, Healthy Youth Development - Prevention Research Center, Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, lead- authored the “call to action” in the opening Commentary which was used as a basis for meetings with UNICEF and the UN held in New York City last week coinciding with the launch of the Lancet series.

To view the Lancet’s Adolescent Health series, please go to:
http://www.thelancet.com/series/adolescent-health-2012

The Division of Adolescent Health and Medicine is home to Minnesota's Healthy Youth Development- Prevention Research Center (HYD-PRC), one of the premier sites in the country for adolescent health research. At the HYD-PRC researchers are learning about the best methods for providing teens with the necessary skills and opportunities to live healthy and meaningful lives. The center is also learning how to reduce health disparities that exist among Minnesota's young people.

In addition to research, the PRC supports the youth-serving community in many ways:

• Promoting best practices
• Evaluating program effectiveness
• Improving policies and systems
• Building public support for young people
• Advising community based organizations
• Training educators, public health professionals, sexuality educators, health care practitioners and youth workers

The HYD•PRC is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Prevention Research Centers Program, which supports research centers at 33 universities across the country to combat chronic disease by creating and testing interventions.