Digital Transformations for Health Lab

🛡️"Ultimately, young people deserve online spaces where they can explore their identities, form social connections, and express themselves freely, without being inundated with harmful content or manipulated by advertisers." 💡In a new article in the Australian Health Promotion Association’s Health Promotion Journal of Australia, Nicholas Carah, Dr Sandro Demaio, Louise Holly, Ilona Kickbusch,and Carmel Williams discuss the proposed social media ban for young people in Australia. They argue that the focus should be shifted from restricting access to ensuring that digital spaces are safer for young people, drawing on public health approaches used in the control of tobacco, alcohol and road safety. 👉 Read it here: https://loom.ly/0PPMu3U #DigitalDeterminantsOfHealth

🔹We look forward to this important discussion on #DigitalDeterminantsOfHealth. ✨Our Director Ilona Kickbusch will be joining the discussion as a speaker on the topic “Understanding and addressing the digital determinants of health”. This topic underscores a crucial part of our work at DTH-Lab. 🔗Register to attend via the details below. 👇

🎥 Our Executive Director Aferdita Bytyqi shares DTH-Lab's vision. 🔷 In 2025, we will continue to collaborate across generations, sectors, and geographies to bridge research gaps, design solutions, and advocate for policy change. ✅ Follow us to find out more about our work to improve the health and well-being of young people.

🎉 As 2024 draws to a close, we’re proud to share our highlights in advancing the recommendations of The Lancet & Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030. 🌐 In 2025, we’ll continue working across generations, sectors, and geographies to bridge research gaps, design solutions, and advocate for policy change. 👍 Follow us to learn how you can join us in improving the health and well-being of young people worldwide. #DigitalTransformations #DigitalDeterminantsOfHealth #DigitalFirstHealthSystems #DataSolidarity

📃Mid-year we published a global interim report summarizing the first stage of a three-year project to develop a blueprint for #DigitalFirstHealthSystems co-created with young people and built for all. 🔗 #ICYMI Read the interim report here: https://loom.ly/Um9flgM

💡 #ICYMI Earlier this year, Rohinton Medhora and Louise Holly alongside Barbara Prainsack from our partner institution, the Universität Wien, developed a policy brief for #T20Brasil. 📃The brief advocates for a solidarity-based approach to #data and #AI governance. 👉Read it here: https://loom.ly/NBaa1ZQ

🔷Youth Engagement is at the heart of our work at DTH-Lab. 🤝 #ICYMI A major highlight of our year was getting to have our 2023/2024 cohort of #RegionalYouthChampions in #Berlin for the Young Leader for Healthy Societies Conference Bertelsmann Stiftung to co-create solutions and explore DTH-Lab's current projects. 🎥 Watch the engagement activities here: https://loom.ly/0adCeZY

🎉Wishing you Joy, Peace, and Inspiration this Holiday Season and for a Brighter 2025. ✨Thank you from the DTH-Lab team for being part of our journey #SeasonsGreetings

"To enable children to make informed decisions about social media and to use digital tools in ways that enhance their wellbeing, we have to equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills. We also need to create a supportive environment where healthy tech habits are modelled by adults." - Louise Holly ❓How can we address the digital harms children face? #ICYMI our Research Coordinator, Louise Holly, recently shared key recommendations in this op-ed published in the BMJ. 👉Read it here: https://loom.ly/c3jzpyk #DigitalDeterminantsOfHealth

❓What do healthy digital transformations mean to you? #ICYMI In October, we urged G20 leaders to establish initiatives to build digital environments that support equitable health outcomes for all young people. 💡 This policy brief written by Louise Holly and supported by Sofia Castro Lopes and Leila Haroon recommends that the #G20 needs to overcome a siloed approach to health, education and digitalization and strengthen multisectoral investments in young people’s digital health futures. 👉 Read it here: https://loom.ly/HrfF_Sw #DigitalDeterminantsOfHealth