About Us - The Digital Wellness Lab (original) (raw)

Our Mission

At the Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, we seek to understand and promote positive and healthy digital media experiences for young people, from birth through young adulthood.

What is Digital Wellness

Digital wellness is a positive state of mental, physical, and social-emotional health pursued through intentional, authentic, and balanced engagement with technology and interactive media.

Our Vision

We believe that by following the science, we can create an empathetic and respectful world in which our kids can grow up healthy, smart, and kind.

How We Create Impact

Our work is focused on developing an evidence base for digital wellness by conducting, translating, and distributing, rigorous research on the positive and negative effects of technology and interactive media use on young people to inform our progress towards positive health and development for every child, teen, and young adult.

Develop an Evidence Base for Digital Wellness

We seek to develop an evidence base for digital wellness by conducting, translating, and distributing rigorous research on the effects of technology and interactive media use on young people to inform our progress towards positive health and development for every child, teen, and young adult.

Bring Stakeholders Together

As no one stakeholder holds the solution for making the digital ecosystem a positive and healthy space for young people, we rely on the diverse experiences and expertise of our team, colleagues, and collaborators to make our work inclusive of, and relevant for, all young people.

Advance Digital Wellness Focused Practices in the Tech Industry

We advance digital wellness focused design, delivery, and marketing practices in the tech industry by working to understand their current and future challenges, and to translate our research outcomes into actionable insights to share with key decision-makers.

Embed Digital Wellness in Healthcare Structures

We embed digital wellness in healthcare strategies by providing evidence-based knowledge and tools designed to move towards a more standardized understanding of, and approach to, digital wellbeing; and to empower clinicians in their ability to help young people and their families build and maintain healthy behaviors.

Our Core Values

We are ambitious & optimistic. We believe we can change the paradigm for how young people use technology and interactive media.

We rely on the diverse experiences and expertise of our team, colleagues, and collaborators and strive to make our work inclusive of, and relevant for, all young people.

We follow the data and base our guidance on a foundation of scientific evidence.

We are relentlessly focused on identifying and following the most impactful paths for change.

We are open-minded & nimble. We are willing to change our approach based on research outcomes, innovations in technology, and needs voiced by young people and their families.

We are introspective & empathetic. We learn from our mistakes and show up for each other without judgment.