Official Publication of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine
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The Journal of Adolescent Health is a multidisciplinary scientific Journal dedicated to improving the health and well-being of adolescents and young adults. The Journal publishes new research findings in the field of Adolescent and Young Adult Health and Medicine ranging from the basic biological and behavioral sciences to public health and policy. We seek original manuscripts, brief reports, review articles, clinical case reports, letters to the editor, and commentaries from our colleagues in Anthropology, Education, Ethics, Global Health, Health Services Research, Law, Medicine, Mental and Behavorial Health, Nursing, Nutrition, Psychology, Public Health and Policy, Social Work, Sociology, Youth Development, and other disciplines that work with or are committed to improving the health and well-being of adolescents and young adults. In addition we seek poetry, personal narratives, images, and other creative works from young people, family and community members, and health professionals that deepen our insights into the lived experiences of adolescents and young adults in a way that can augment scientific peer-reviewed research.

The Journal is the official publication of the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM), a multidisciplinary organization committed to improving the health and well-being of adolescents and young adults. One of the Society's primary goals is the development, synthesis, and dissemination of scientific and scholarly knowledge unique to the health needs of young people. To meet this goal, the Society established The Journal of Adolescent Health in 1980.

Original Articles
Adolescent Health Briefs 
Review articles
Clinical Observations
Editorial Correspondence
Commentaries

Editor-in-Chief
Carol A. Ford, MD
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Associate Editors
Cherrie B. Boyer, Ph.D
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Catherine M. Gordon, MD, MS
Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Carolyn T. Halpern, PhD
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
David Anthony Ross, BMBch, PhD
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Managing Editor
Tor D. Berg
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Editorial Analyst
Teresa Dal Santo, PhD
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Supplements Editor
Charles E. Irwin, Jr., MD
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Editorial Board
Emma K. Adam, PhD
Northwestern University - Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Shanthi Ameratunga, MBChB, MPH
The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Shuntaro Ando, MD, MScPH, PhD
Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Tokyo, Japan
Monika Arora, PhD
Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
David A. Brent, MD
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Claire D. Brindis, DrPH
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, MBBS, MSc
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Terryann Clark, PhD, MPH, RN
The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Ronald E. Dahl, MD
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, MD, PhD
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Adesegun Fatusi, MBChB, MPH
Guttmacher Institute, New York, New York, United States
B. Jane Ferguson, MSc
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, KawZulu-Natal, South Africa
J. Dennis Fortenberry, MD, MS
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Ersheng Gao, MD
Shanghai Institute of Planned Parenthood Research, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Nancy A. Gonzales, PhD
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States
Nicola Jane Gray, PhD, MRPharmS (UK)
Association for Young People's Health, London, United Kingdom
Scott Hadland, MD, MPH, MS
Boston University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD
Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States
Tamara Hannon, MD
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Albert C. Hergenroeder, MD
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States
Caroline Kabiru, PhD
African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya
Debra K. Katzman, MD
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada
Matilde H. Maddaleno, MD, MPH
Government of Chile Ministry of Health, Santiago, Chile
Clea McNeely, DrPH
The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee, United States
Megan A. Moreno, MD, MSEd, MPH
University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Stuart B. Murray, DClinPsych, PhD
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Lucia F. O'Sullivan, PhD
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Vikram Patel, PhD
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
George Patton, MD, MBBS
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia
Jochen Peter, PhD
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Marc Potenza, MD, PhD
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Kim D. Reynolds, PhD
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California, United States
Elizabeth M. Saewyc, PhD, RN
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Chandan Saha, PhD
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Lena Sanci, MBBS, PhD
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
John S. Santelli, MD, MPH
Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
Peter Scal, MD, MPH
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Mark A. Schuster, MD, PhD
Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine, Pasadena, California, United States
Daniel Shek, PhD
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
Fred Ssewamala, PhD, MSW
Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Stephanie Staras, MSPH, PhD
University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States
Mary Story, PhD, RD
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States
Stanley R. Vance, Jr., MD
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States
Dexter R. Voisin, PhD
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
James Herbert Williams, PhD, MSW, MPA
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States
Charlene Wong, MD, MSHP
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States
Elizabeth R. Woods, MD, MPH
Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States