A review of the recent UNICEF report: ‘Worlds of Influence: Understanding what shapes child well-being in rich countries.’

On the 26th August we hosted a webinar to showcase the fantastic progress our project teams are making across our portfolio of work. We were also delighted to officially launch our Impact Collaborations process with two new challenge questions.

Watch our video presentation from UNICEF’s HIV Conference Satellite Session to hear from our HIV project team experts.

To help us gain a better understanding of the research landscape and the various themes within the mental health space, we commissioned The GovLab to undertake a topic mapping exercise on adolescent mental health, with a focus on measurement and monitoring.

Our Director Alex Hutchison takes stock of what it has been like to set up a (large!) global collaborative team to work on such an important project.

We are delighted to publish our ethical assessment which captures the unique challenges posed by working on data projects for children.

The recently published ‘A Future for the World’s Children? A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission’ is a major report on child health and well-being, culminating in a call for action to help achieve positive results for children across the globe. #HealthForAll #FutureChild

As part of DataFest20, we attended the Turing’s Testers Women in Data Science event- encouraging school girls to get involved and close the gender gap in data, technology and computing.

Together, we can address the far reaching personal, societal and economic impacts of obesity. Become a force for change this #WorldObesityDay.

The Data Lab held an event at the Scottish Government, showcasing The Data Lab’s work in Scotland and how their various transformative projects are helping to address complex global issues through the use of data.

Having signed our collaboration agreement in September, we are launching in the academic space to encourage those with relevant research interests and experience to get involved in our projects.

We took part in NTT Data’s 10th annual Open Innovation Contest on the 2nd December.

Listen to our Delivery Director Alex Hutchison and Jude McCorry from The Data Lab talk about the Data for Children Collaborative in an interview with Brian Hills.

This Collaborative will deliver a portfolio of projects across a range of topics with a priority focus initially on Obesity, Poverty and Population Dynamics.