Public Health and Epidemiology
Technology & Youth Mental Health Series
Virtual lectures exploring tech’s impact on youth mental health.
About the Series
Mental health challenges among teenagers have increased dramatically in recent years, and accurate data about technology’s role in this phenomenon remains difficult to obtain.
The Child Mind Institute’s Technology and Youth Mental Health webinar series brings together researchers, advocates, and tech thinkers to explore crucial questions: What is the relationship between social media and mental health? How can we advance research on this relationship using real world data?
Upcoming Event
Beyond the Hype: What Research
Tells Us About Social Media’s Role
in Youth Mental Health
Tuesday, August 20, 2024 • 3:00pm – 4:00pm ET
Opportunities and Challenges
We hope these conversations will help identify specific barriers to ecological, “real world” youth mental health research and offer policy solutions.
The Next Frontier of Mental Health Research
Panelists discuss the data currently available to researchers and what data is needed to better measure the efficacy of public policies and technology interventions.
Public Policy and Researcher Access to Data
We discuss the potential of tech company data to open new research pathways and the current state of policy on data transparency.
Ethics & Equity in Real-World Data Collection
How should researchers balance the need for consent against the need for representation? Will strict privacy policies create equity imbalances in the data? And how can we involve young people in the design of participatory research?
Social Media’s Role in Youth Mental Health
Concerns for the mental well-being of teens and adolescents continue to grow, with many calling attention to the prevalence of social media in young people’s lives. But what does the research really tell us about social media and youth mental health?
Video Library
Panel discussions and expert interviews exploring the interplay between technology, public policy, and youth mental health. Sign up to be notified when we release new videos.
