On 8 March 2022, the Responsible Data for Children (RD4C) team—a collaboration between The GovLab and UNICEF—hosted a special 75-minute webinar on the RD4C principles and tools meant to enable the responsible handling of data for and about children.

Our partners at the ONS FCDO Data Science Hub have been exploring if machine learning methods and publicly available spatial datasets can be used to map and understand HIV risk in Côte d'Ivoire, West Africa for our HIV project.

The theme of this year’s World Obesity Day is #EveryBodyNeedsEverybody.

Read about the work our nutrition project team has been doing to analyse the Growing Up in Scotland (GUS) cohort of data to inform the design of obesity/overweight surveillance systems internationally.

Watch a recording of lunch and learn webinar session inviting academics to learn more about the Collaborative and our ways of working.

Read our Director Alex Hutchison’s interview with PrivSec global where she discusses the Collaborative and how we are improving outcomes for children through ethical data use.

We recently commissioned a piece of work to The GovLab at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering to complete a topic mapping exercise on youth and climate change.

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.

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.

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.