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Access to fair and sustainable travel has health, social, economic and environmental benefits. On World Health Day, the Chair of the Public Health and Sustainable Transport Group blogs for us on transport trends linked to the pandemic and policy responses to positively impact communities.

In 2020 we made a film to show how children & young people believe that good relationships are key to their mental wellbeing. After almost two school years during the pandemic, Carly Grant explains why relationships have never been more important.

Dr Richmond Davies, Head of Health, Wellbeing and Social Care, tells us about the new PHS Trajectory Tool to support the delivery of quality mental health services and shares NHS Board testimonials.

Today (13th June) we celebrate the beginning of Clinical Audit Awareness Week. Throughout the week the Scottish National Audit Programme (SNAP) will tweet about each of the individual audits within the Programme to raise awareness of their work.

PHS Director of Public Health Science, Nick Phin, shares some hints and tips on how best to look after ourselves over the festive season.

Dr Rachael Wood, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, discusses the pioneering work and findings of the ongoing COVID-19 in Pregnancy in Scotland (COPS) study, which seeks to understand the effects of COVID-19 on pregnancy-related issues in Scotland.

Public Health Scotland’s Elinor Dickie, co-author of the new treatment standards to support people with a drug problem, shares her hopes of the lasting change that they will deliver.

Author Grant Wyper discusses the latest from our Scottish Burden of Disease study, which helps us to show where service improvements and approaches to improve health are needed at local and national levels, to enable people to live longer, healthier lives.

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.

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.