In June, 257 young people, many university students, came to an event to launch the Lancet Commission on Global Mental and Sustainable Development and #mymindourhumanity campaign in Kenya. Damian Juma and Joy Muhia - young leaders representing the commission in...
Young People Will Transform Global Mental Health: A call to prioritize global action on mental health for young people On the 23rd of May 2019 the Young Leaders for the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development, in...
Clara, a member of our young people’s advisory group (YPAG), took part in work experience in the summer 2018 to gain a greater insight into bioethics research. Clara attends a local school and is studying towards the European Baccalaureate. During...
Back in 2000, I was finishing up my PhD and wondering what to do next. Not unusually, I was a bit panicked. Would I get a job? Would I get funding? How should I follow up my PhD research? Actually...
Would you spit in a tube and pay (about) one hundred pounds to find out your future health? A number of companies, including 23andme, Counsyl and DanteLabs, now allow customers to submit their saliva samples to find out if they...
By YPAG member Louie Glover The term “young person” usually refers to someone between the ages of 14 and 17, so legal rights of a person within this incorporating term varies, almost yearly. The law is complex but I feel...
By YPAG member Abigail Miller Ethics and politics are topics that effect the younger generation as well as the current generation. However, the younger generation has very little say in what’s currently happening; it’s important that that changes so we...
Last year Giacomo Mazzariol, a 20-year-old Italian writer, was presenting his book in schools all over Italy, when he had the idea to develop a blog that could give “generation Z” (people born between 1995 and 2010) a space to...
by Kristen Gillespie-Lynch, The City University of New York What do you really think autism is? When one autism researcher asked four other autism researchers this, our answers were strikingly different. Viewpoints on autism are as diverse as autism itself...
A single marshmallow, and the urge to eat it now In the late 1960s, Stanford researcher Walter Mischel devised a clever procedure to test the limits of children’s willpower. Preschoolers are left in a room alone with marshmallows (or a...
