15 min consultation. Public Health for Paediatricians: Adolescent Public Health. Dougal S. Hargreaves 1 , Bhanu Williams 2 , Fiona Straw 3 , Anna Gregorowski 4,5 , Arrash Yassaee 6 , Delan Devakumar 7 1 Population, Policy & Practice Programme, UCL Institute of Child Health, London. WC1N 1EH 2 Department of Paediatrics, Northwick Park Hospital, London North West Hospitals NHS Trust, HA1 3UJ 3 Nottingham Children’s Hospital, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, NG7 2UH 4 Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University College London Hospital Foundation Trust, London, NW1 2PG 5 Adolescent Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust, London, WC1N3JH 6 Newham University Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London E13 8SL 7 Institute for Epidemiology and Health Care, University College London. WC1E 6BT Corresponding author: Dougal S. Hargreaves, Population, Policy & Practice Programme, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford St, London. WC1N 1EH. Email: d.hargreaves@ucl.ac.uk Abstract Paediatricians have a key role to play in ensuring a holistic, integrated approach is taken to meeting adolescent health needs. There is increasing evidence that failure to do so can lead to poor healthcare experience, avoidable ill-health and increased need for healthcare services, both in the short-term and in adult life. This article aims to guide paediatricians in answering the questions ‘How well are the public health and clinical needs of the adolescent population in my area being met? And how can we improve?’ Introduction Adolescence and young adulthood is a critical stage in the life-course, when lifelong health-related behaviour and attitudes can be established[1-4] and in which mortality and morbidity have improved much more slowly in recent decades than for other age groups.[5, 6] Paediatricians have a key role to play in ensuring a holistic, integrated approach is taken to meet adolescent health needs at local, national, and international levels. There is increasing evidence that failure to do so can lead to avoidable ill-health and increased need for healthcare services, both in the short-term and in adult life.[7, 8] This article aims to guide paediatricians in