Sara Kirk is a professor of health promotion in the School of Health and Human Performance, the Scientific Director of the Healthy Populations Institute and co-lead of the UpLift Partnership at Dalhousie University, Halifax.
Despite the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Children, in Canada and across the globe children and youth too often do not have their voices heard, or their perspectives adequately considered. Issues related to child and youth health are no exception.