Watch this video of Caroline Knop, current RYC for Europe, as she shares her most valuable experience as a Regional Youth Champion, offering a glimpse into the unique opportunities this role provides. Get inspired to create action. Learn more here: shorturl.at/LsupC

Are you interested in how the #digitaltransformation will leverage technologies to achieve health for all by 2030? Become a Regional Youth Champion with the DTH-Lab to shape digital-first health systems that deliver equitable health benefits for all! 🔗shorturl.at/LsupC

Digital transformations are having a major impact on health and well-being yet health is invisible in the Global Digital Compact. Read the summary of a recent roundtable where our Policy & Research Coordinator Louise Holly joined Digital Health and Rights Project STOPAIDS & MGCY

Today, we make #TikTok's commitment to indefinitely withdraw "TikTok Lite” from the EU legally binding under the DSA. 👉Our message is clear: there is no space in social media for any feature that puts users’ wellbeing at risk, especially minors. 🗞️europa.eu/!8Y3bPd

This is a #publichealth issue - more public health leaders and agencies need to address it #DDoH

As we celebrate #InternationalYouthDay2024, we recognize youth’s role in driving digital innovation. We're partnering with young people to build digital-first health systems and promote #DigitalHealthCitizenship. Join our #MyHealthFutures network for more: loom.ly/krg3kCw

🚨 2 days left before the call for next cohort of Regional Youth Champions closes!! 🔗Check out shorturl.at/LsupC for more and apply before 18 August 2024!

Just published in The Lancet Public Health, Ilona Kickbusch, Dr Sandro Demaio and I call for digital technologies to be recognised as #digitaldeterminants of #childhealth and discuss #publichealth approaches required to protect young people from #digitalharm doi.org/10.1016/S2468-…

💡 In this new Lancet Public Health Viewpoint, Louise Holly, Ilona Kickbusch and Dr Sandro Demaio argue that digital technologies should be recognized as determinants of health and call for public health strategies to protect youth from digital harms. 📰 loom.ly/4QVdM7Y

📰Our Lancet viewpoint by Louise Holly, Ilona Kickbusch and Sandro Demaio was covered by Health Policy Watch! It suggests 3 interventions: delayed device and social media use, warning labels and campaigns on the benefits of delaying technology access. 🔗loom.ly/qNnzVYc

📢 New blog post If digital technologies are a determinant of health, what determines digital access, inclusion and security in the future? In our most recent blog post, Collective member Meg Davis discusses. 🔗sum.uio.no/english/resear…

The HIV movement showed us that one of the biggest determinants of health was community-led advocacy. My first blog for the Political Determinants of Health Collective explores what that could mean for digital health & rights ✊

#ICYMI Read our Lancet viewpoint article on addessing the #digitaldeterminantsofhealth and using public health strategies to protect young people from digital harms. loom.ly/CWVon5o @ilonakickbusch Holly Armstrong

At last #publichealth agencies are getting active! See our recent comment in ⁦The Lancet⁩ ⁦Digital Transformations for Health Lab⁩ No screens before age of two, Swedish health authority tells parents | Sweden | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/article/…

#SaveTheDate! @IHLASummit2024 in Rotterdam, 18–20 September Join DTH-Lab's Ilona Kickbusch, Whitney Gray and Yifan Zhou as the health community explores #healthliteracy in all its dimensions. #IHLASummit2024

DTH-Lab is proud to be a member of the WHO Youth Council and we look forward to the upcoming International Youth Conference in October that aims to strengthen Young Leaders for Healthy Societies by building well-being, resilience, and trust.

Thank you to nearly 3000 applicants to be #RegionalYouthChampions! We are overwhelmed by your expertise & enthusiasm. Applications are closed and we are in touch with those shortlisted. For those not selected we appreciate your time and energy, and hope you reapply next year.