YOUTH DELIVER THE FUTURE

INVESTING IN YOUNG PEOPLE'S HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT:
RESEARCH THAT IMPROVES POLICIES AND PROGRAMS
An International Conference

Abuja, Nigeria
April 27-29, 2008
(Optional Sessions, April 30)

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The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA, hosted an international conference—Investing in Young People's Health and Development: Research that Improves Policies and Programs—with its partners: Institute of Public Health, Obafemi Awolowo University; and Center for Population and Reproductive Health, University of Ibadan; and Nigeria’s federal ministries of health, youth, and education, in partnership with a consortium of more than 40 international and national organizations.

This conference provided an international forum for exchanging research and programmatically generated evidence on how to meet the health and developmental needs of young people in low -resource settings. The conference offered an opportunity for researchers and  practitioners—as consumers of research findings and implementers of youth programming—as well as youth themselves, to learn from research, share lessons and valuable experiences, and provide recommendations.

The thematic areas relate to population, development, sexual and reproductive health, poverty reduction and gender equity as they affect young people. This conference provided a forum for the international research and development community to reach and communicate consensus on policy, program and research priorities for youth development. Furthermore, organizers expect an outcome of the meeting to be increased resources and commitment to youth-directed investments in health and development at the international, national and local levels.

For further conference information, contact Ms. Natalie Culbertson at gates@jhsph.edu.

Partners

The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health is pleased to partner with the following institutions, organizations and projects: