The Digital Wellness Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School is a nonprofit research center seeking to understand and promote positive and healthy digital media experiences for young people, from birth through young adulthood. 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.
Coalition Representative
Brinleigh Murphy-Reuter, Program Administrator, Youth & Interactive Media Coalition main point of contact
Additional Colleagues
Cori Stott, MBA, EdM, Executive Director
David Bickham, PhD, Research Director
Faculty Lead
Michael Rich, MD, MPH, Director & Founder
Harvard Affiliation
Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital
Mission / Focus
At the Digital Wellness Lab, we believe that kids’ use of technology and media and their healthy development don’t have to be mutually exclusive. 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.
Areas of Study
The Digital Wellness Lab areas of study include: Youth Mental, Social, and Emotional Health; Prosocial Development; Problematic Interactive Media Use (PIMU); and Technology Use and Effects (AI, video games, social media).
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