Public Engagement
Our public engagement outputs aim to make evidence accessible and relevant to wider audiences, including young people, families and the general public.
Digital Determinants of Health Hub Launch Webinar
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Media & Commentary
Kids are bypassing the Australian social media ban
The BMJ, 2026Social media bans may not protect teenagers who need help most
Earth, July 2026Poorly regulated social media is a public health threat
The Times, April 2026Idris Elba: Our knife crime crisis
BBC, January 2025Decoding a public health approach to social media
Medical Independent, July 2024
Social media use linked to teenagers taking up smoking
The Times, November 2024Social media use linked with risky behavior In adolescents, study finds
Forbes, November 2023
Increased social media use ‘linked to rise in teenage binge drinking’
The Independent, September 2023Talks, Panels & Public Events
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Technical Consultation Meeting on Social Media and Drug Use Prevention.
Youth Opportunity Summit at St James’s Palace.
Hosted by His Majesty King Charles III through the King Charles III Charitable Fund and The King’s Trust, recognising the UK Anti-Knife Crime Coalition’s efforts. Attended by Sir Idris Elba, Sir Keir Starmer, Baroness Lawrence, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, Secretary of State Lisa Nandy MP, and youth campaigners with lived experience.
The Next Steps for Children’s Online Safety at the House of Lords.
Hosted by Baroness Luciana Berger and Lord Russel.
Andrija Štampar Summer Educational & Tutoring School at the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region, Zagreb, Croatia
International faculty member alongside distinguished public health leaders including Professors Martin McKee, Josep Figueras, Henrique Barros, Selma Šogorić, Mirjana Tiljak and Mzwandile Mabhala.
September 2026 – Feasibility, Acceptability, and Equity of TikTok Data Donation Among UK Adolescents (70th conference of the Society for Social Medicine & Population Health, London, UK) – View our poster and abstract
July 2026 — Social Media, Status, and Violence Involving Children (Society for Evidence Based Policing, London, UK)
July 2026 — The Digital Determinants of Health (Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region, Zagreb, Croatia)
June 2026 — The Next Steps for Children’s Online Safety (House of Lords, London, UK)
May 2026 — Preventing Harm to Children in the UK – Preventing a Public Health Crisis (Royal Society of Medicine & Faculty of Public Health, London, UK)
May 2026 — Online Harms Roundtable: Taking a Public Health Approach to Online Harms (Scottish Government & Children’s First, Edinburgh, UK)
March 2026 — Advancing Data Science to Examine the Causal Relationship Between Social Media Content and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviours (Child and Adolescent Seminar Series, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
February 2026 — Cleaning the Digital Environment: Tackling Youth Violence on Social Media (Adolescence Unfiltered Conference, Online)
February 2026 — A Public Health Approach to Online Harms: The Case for Digital Sanitation (Scottish Government & Children First Roundtable, Edinburgh, UK)
February 2026 — Addressing Youth Violence on Social Media: The Case for Digital Sanitation(Keynote) (Scottish Violence Reduction Unit, Glasgow, UK)
February 2026 — Social Media Bans and Impacts on Adolescent Mental Health (UNICEF, Copenhagen, Denmark)
January 2026 — Advancing Data Science to Examine the Causal Relationship Between Social Media Content and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviours (George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA)
November 2025 — Digital Dilemma: Balancing Tech and Wellbeing for the Next Generation (Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine Conference, UK)
October 2025 — Navigating the Social Media Landscape (Adolescence Unfiltered Conference, Online)
July 2025 — UK Anti-Knife Crime Coalition: 1 Year On (St James’s Palace, UK; attended by His Majesty The King, the Prime Minister, and the Home Secretary)
June 2025 — Social Media and Adolescent Play: Power 2 Play Initiative (House of Lords, UK)
May 2025 — The Impact of Screen Time and Social Media on Adolescent Mental Health (SAGE Publications, Online)
May 2025 — Integrating Social Media Data Donation into Health Research (The Alan Turing Institute, Online)
May 2025 — Exploring the Effects of Social Media on Adolescent Mental Wellbeing (Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Online)
April 2025 — The Potential Role of Social Media in Shaping Adolescent Mental Health(Keynote) (Edinburgh Mental Health, University of Edinburgh, UK)
March 2025 — How Can We Foster Digital Environments That Encourage Hope, Connection, and Meaningful Action? (Anthropy National Gathering for UK Thought Leaders, Eden Project, UK)
February 2025 — Department for Science, Innovation and Technology: Causal Methodologies for Policy – Achieving Evidence in the Next 2–3 Years (University of Cambridge, UK)
January 2025 — The Target Trial Emulation Approach (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK)
August 2024 — The Potential Role of Social Media in the Prevention of Drug Use (United Nations Technical Consultation Meeting, Vienna, Austria)
January 2024 — The Translation of Causal Evidence to the Court Setting (Knight First Amendment Institute, New York, USA)