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Lyndal Bond is a behavioural epidemiologist in adolescent health whose research focuses on improving the school environment, the most important developmental setting outside of the family, to promote adolescent health and wellbeing. Her research examines how schools affect health and investigates how we can effectively intervene at the school level to promote health and learning outcomes.

Sarah Drew was awarded a PhD in public health in 2004. She has a background in sociology and youth studies and several years experience teaching undergraduate and post-graduate medicine and humanities students in relation to social aspects of health.  In her position as postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Adolescent Health, Sarah has taken a leadership role in the qualitative components of a range of projects. These projects investigate ways in which social environments impact on the health, wellbeing and identity development of young people, as well as related impacts on life chances and transitions to young adulthood. Sarah's work focuses particularly on the importance of school experiences for both 'healthy' students and students with chronic health conditions. She also works to establish and evaluate innovative qualitative research methods for use with young people.