NICHD-NIMH Workshop: Impact of Technology and Digital Media on Child and Adolescent Development and Mental Health
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Overview
The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) hosted a workshop on the impact of technology and digital media on child and adolescent development and mental health. The goal of this meeting was to discuss the current state of and future directions for research on the positive and negative effects of technology and digital media (TDM) on the development and mental health outcomes of infants, children, and adolescents. The program includes experts in TDM, early development, childhood and adolescence, and physical and mental health and will include individual talks and panel discussions. The meeting was open to the scientific community and the public.
Recordings
Day 1: April 4, 2024
Watch the NIH Videocast Recording: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=54538
The videocast location timestamp is noted by the session titles.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Welcome by Workshop Co-Chairs (00:00)
James Griffin, Ph.D., Chief, Child Development and Behavior Branch, NICHD
Julia Zehr, Ph.D., Chief, Developmental Mechanisms and Trajectories of Psychopathology Branch, NIMH
Opening Remarks
Alison Cernich, Ph.D., Deputy Director, NICHD (07:01) and (20:21)
Senator Edward Markey, M.A. (video remarks) (11:57)
Congressman Jamie Raskin, M.D. (video remarks) (14:59)
Session I: The Influence of TDM on Cognitive Development (21:30)
Moderator: Virginia Salo, Ph.D., Program Director, Child Development and Behavior Branch, NICHD, (21:56)
Shayl Griffith, Ph.D., clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Counseling, Recreation, and School Psychology, Florida International University (22:44)
Ying Xu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences and Technology, University of Michigan (33:47)
Eva Telzer, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (46:21)
Discussant: Rachel Barr, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Director of the Early Learning Project, Georgetown University (1:01:24)
Moderated Discussion (1:15:07)
Break
Session II: The Influence of TDM on Physical Health and Health Behaviors (1:53:00)
Moderator: Brett Miller, Ph.D., Deputy Chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch and Director of the Literacy and Related Learning Disabilities Program, NICHD, (1:53:05)
Alison Ventura, Ph.D., Professor of Kinesiology and Public Health, California Polytechnic State University (1:54:02)
Megan Moreno, M.D., MSEd, M.P.H., Professor of Pediatrics and adjunct Professor of Educational Psychology University of Wisconsin-Madison (2:09:40)
Anne-Marie Chang, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biobehavioral Health and directs the Sleep and Human Health Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University (2:18:02)
Discussant: Jason Nagata, M.D., M.Sc.., is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, the University of California, San Francisco (2:31:44)
Moderated Discussion (2:51:11)
Lunch
Session III: The Influence of TDM on Socioemotional Development and Mental Health (3:12:57)
Moderator: Ashley Smith, Ph.D., Program Officer, Developmental Mechanisms and Trajectories of Psychopathology Branch, NIMH (3:13:35)
Sarah Coyne, Ph.D., Professor of Human Development in the School of Family Life, University, Brigham Young University (3:15:15)
Henry Willis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park (3:28:07)
Sameer Hinduja, Ph.D., Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida Atlantic University (3:41:49)
Discussant: Lucia Magis-Weinberg, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Psychology, University of Washington (3:56:52)
Moderated Discussion (4:13:27)
Break
Moderator: Laura Thomas, Ph.D., Program Officer, Developmental Mechanisms and Trajectories of Psychopathology Branch, NIMH (4:34:09)
César Escobar-Viera, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Program for Internet Delivered Interventions on LGBTQA+ Mental Health (PRIDE iM), University of Pittsburgh, Chair (4:36:32)
Keith Hampton, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Media and Information and Interim Director of the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law, Michigan State University(4:45:28)
Mimi Ito, Ph.D., Director of the Connected Learning Lab and John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Chair in Digital Media and Learning, University of California, Irvine (4:52:24)
Cindy Liu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, the Director of the Developmental Risk and Cultural Resilience Program within the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (5:02:50)
Robin Stevens, Ph.D., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, and the Director of the Health Equity & Media Lab, University of Southern California (5:12:30)
Darcy Thompson, M.D., M.P.H., Professor of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine (5:21:11)
Discussion (5:30:09)
Day 1 Wrap-Up (6:03:11)
James Griffin, Ph.D., Chief, Child Development and Behavior Branch, NICHD
Julia Zehr, Ph.D., Chief, Developmental Mechanisms and Trajectories of Psychopathology Branch, NIMH
Day 1 Closing Remarks (6:03:55)
Rosalind King, Ph.D., Chief, Scientific Development and Coordination Section, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, National Institutes of Health
Adjourn for Day
Day 2: April 5, 2024
Watch the NIH Videocast Recording: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=54549
The videocast location timestamp is noted by the session titles.
Welcome and Opening Remarks (00:00)
Welcome by Workshop Co-Chairs
James Griffin, Ph.D., Chief, Child Development and Behavior Branch, NICHD (00:18)
Julia Zehr, Ph.D., Chief, Developmental Mechanisms and Trajectories of Psychopathology Branch, NIMH (03:05)
Opening Remarks
Shelli Avenevoli, Ph.D., Deputy Director, NIMH (04:18)
Diana Bianchi, M.D., Director, NICHD (08:25)
Kristen Busch, Policy Advisor, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (12:09)
Moderator: Julia Zehr, Ph.D., Chief, Developmental Mechanisms and Trajectories of Psychopathology Branch, NIMH (19:50)
Jason Chein, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Chair (20:45)
Munmun De Choudhury, Ph.D., Associate Professor at the School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology (21:47)
John Hutton, M.D. M.S., F.A.A.P., Associate Professor in the Division of General and Community Pediatrics, UT Southwestern, Dallas, and adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital (27:43)
Heather Kirkorian, Ph.D., Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison (34:52)
Laura Marciano, Ph.D., Research Associate at the Harvard Chan T.H. School of Public Health, Department of Social and Behavioral Science, the Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness, Harvard University (39:19)
Jenette E. Moreno, Ph.D., M.A., F.S.B.M., Assistant Professor at the Children’s Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine (49:02)
Tiera Tanksley, Ph.D., Faculty Fellow in Critical Race Technology Studies, University of California, Los Angeles (57:15)
Discussion (1:04:10)
Break
Session VI: Panel Discussion - Current Knowledge Gaps and Future Directions in TDM Research (1:33:12)
Moderator: James Griffin, Ph.D., Chief, Child Development and Behavior Branch, NICHD (1:33:12)
Jason Nagata, M.D., M.Sc.., is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco (1:35:37)
Lucia Magis-Weinberg, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor in Psychology, University of Washington (1:43:03)
César Escobar-Viera, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Program for Internet Delivered Interventions on LGBTQA+ Mental Health (PRIDE iM), University of Pittsburgh, Chair (1:53:06)
Jason Chein, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Chair (1:59:45)
Rachel Barr, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Director of the Early Learning Project, Georgetown University (2:09:10)
Nicholas Allen, Ph.D., Ann Swindells Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Oregon, Co-Chair (2:17:51)
Brendesha Tynes, Ph.D., Dean's Professor of Educational Equity and Professor of Education and Psychology at the USC Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, Co-Chair (2:26:52)
Discussion (2:32:06)
Working Lunch – Breakout Groups: Future Directions in TDM Research
Report Out and Discussion (2:57:32)
Concluding Remarks
Julia Zehr, Ph.D., Chief, Developmental Mechanisms and Trajectories of Psychopathology Branch, NIMH (3:11:35)
James Griffin, Ph.D., Chief, Child Development and Behavior Branch, NICHD (3:12:24)
Adjourn
Sponsored by
- The National Institute of Mental Health’s Division of Translational Research
- The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development