Susan Sawyer

MBBS, MD, FRACP, FSAHM

Susan Sawyer holds the chair of adolescent health at the University of Melbourne, based at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. A paediatrician by training, she served as a Lead Commissioner for the 2016 Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing, having previously co-led two series on adolescent health for The Lancet in 2007 and 2012. Sawyer has a major interest in education and research and has been actively engaged in various professional organisations that support adolescent health and medicine, including the Australian Association of Adolescent Health, the US Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, and the International Pediatric Association. Sawyer served as chair, scientific committee, IAAH 9th World Congress on Adolescent Health (2008); IAAH vice president for Oceania (2009-2012; 2013-2016); interim IAAH president (2016-2017) and IAAH president (2017-2021).