Peter Azzopardi
Co-Head of Adolescent Health
Public Health
Burnet Institute
Australia
Biography
Peter Azzopardi has over 10 years of experience in adolescent health programming, clinical medicine and research. Dr Azzopardi is an adolescent physican by training and has worked across many settings in the Western Pacific region. He also recently completed his PhD, a project where he described the health and wellbeing of Indigenous adolescents living in Australia using national survey data, hospital data and mortality data.
Research Interest
Dr Azzopardi contributed to the analysis of global burden of disease data for 188 countries to describe key health issues for adolescent health and wellbeing at a national, regional and global level for the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing. He has extensive experience in supporting and advising Government and non-government organisations around population health research, specifically in the areas of adolescent health.
Publications
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Measuring progress and projecting attainment on the basis of past trends of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals in 188 countries: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. GBD 2016 SDG Collaborators including Azzopardi P Lancet. 2017 Sep; 390(10100):1423-1459
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Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 84 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990-2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016. GBD 2016 Risk Factors Collaborators including Azzopardi P Lancet. 2017 Sep; 390(10100):1345-1422
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Health and wellbeing of Indigenous adolescents in Australia: a systematic synthesis of population data. Azzopardi PS, Sawyer SM, Carlin JB, Degenhardt L, Brown N, Brown AD, Patton GC. Lancet. 2017 Nov; Epub ahead of print
