The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Stocktaking Exercise on Young Adolescents is a collaboration between the WHO and other organizations to assess what has been learned about adolescent health since 2010 and to identify research priorities for the next decade. The exercise is a partnership between the WHO, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH), and the UNDP-UNFPA-UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP). 

The Supplement’s objectives include:

  • Taking stock of what has been learned about young adolescents since 2010
  • Identifying research, program, and policy priorities for the next decade