Study Youth Health for a rewarding and interesting career where you can contribute to the health and wellbeing of youth in New Zealand.

It is of great concern that New Zealand youth currently have rates of suicide, pregnancy and motor vehicle crash fatalities that are amongst the highest in the OECD.

However, new research knowledge offers opportunities to make significant gains in the health and wellbeing of young people today and into the future.

The wellbeing of our youth population is critical to our country’s future social and economic prosperity. And so Youth Health focuses on this population group, which is increasingly the core business of health services in a range of school, community and health facility settings.

New Zealand has a growing workforce of youth health professionals meeting the emerging health needs of today’s young people, from clinical roles to policy and programme leadership.