Background
- Research Officer, Youth Well Lab, University of Sydney
- Commissioner, Second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing
- Young Expert, WHO GAMA Advisory Group
- Emerging Professionals Network Co-chair
Surabhi Dogra
MA, PhD (Cand)
Surabhi Dogra is a public health researcher and practitioner addressing emerging adolescent health challenges through digital and planetary health frameworks. With experience spanning low-income rural and urban communities in India to global health policy platforms, Surabhi is deeply committed to the meaningful engagement of adolescents and young people in public health.
As a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney and a Research Officer at the Youth Well Lab, Surabhi is currently co-leading the ‘Healthy Places, Healthy Futures’ Coalition. This initiative implements transdisciplinary strategies to partner with adolescents in chronic disease prevention through a planetary health lens across the Asia-Pacific. Surabhi serves as a Youth Commissioner for the Second Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing. She is a Young Expert for the World Health Organization’s GAMA Advisory Group and a member of the uGood!? Youth Steering Committee. Surabhi is an alumna of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and the University of Delhi, where her academic excellence was recognised with the ‘Best Student’ Shield and the University Gold Medal.
Since 2021, Surabhi has served as an Officer of the Emerging Professionals Network for the International Association for Adolescent Health. She has also worked with the Education and Communication Committees of the IAAH during her tenure. With the EPN team, she has learned from and contributed to capacity building initiatives, communications strategies, regional efforts and World Congress organising committees. As incoming Co-Chair, she hopes to elevate the voices and role of multidisciplinary emerging professionals in advancing adolescent health.