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Senior Advisor Dr Andrew Fraser discusses the enduring public health challenge of non-communicable disease in Scotland, and why action to prevent the harms associated with health harming products is as urgent as ever.

Sam Whitmore from our Place Standard Tool team talks about the new Climate Lens resource due to complete in spring 2022 to help protect health and combat climate change.

Health and Housing Manager Katrina Reid blogs to demonstrate PHS support for Housing to 2040, Scotland’s first ever long-term national housing strategy and route map to upholding the right to housing for everyone.

This Infant Mental Health Awareness Week, Dr Megan Watson, Public Health Intelligence Adviser at PHS shares her reflections on the impact the pandemic has had on the mental health and wellbeing of families across Scotland.

Scotland has a vision where suicide is preventable; where help and support is available to anyone contemplating suicide and to those who have lost a loved one to suicide. Shirley Windsor, Organisational Lead for Public Mental Health, reflects on the wide range of work PHS has been involved in and how it will continue with the launch of the new strategy and action plan.

The Public Health Microbiology Team in PHS discuss tracking the Delta variant and the importance of whole genome sequencing in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Read about how PHS is supporting localised working to improve health and wellbeing within local communities.

Colleagues from our healthcare audits service area explain how accurate and robust data supports better decision making to improve clinical practice and patient care.

This Green Health Week, Professor Dominic Mellor, Consultant in Veterinary Public Health at Public Health Scotland, discusses the importance of being bug and germ aware while exploring the outdoors.

COVID-19 has focused our minds on how life-giving vaccines can be. In our latest blog, read how vaccination has been preventing severe illness and death from a range of diseases for a long time, and continues to improve quality of life.