Last year, I spent an inspiring and humbling day at the Hagadera refugee camp, part of the Dadaab camp complex in eastern Kenya. After an early start in Nairobi, the UN transport plane dropped us at the airstrip near the …
Liver disease has changed over the years but my commitment to reducing deaths hasn’t. I’ve had a fascination and passion for treating and preventing it since I was a medical student, training at the Royal Free School of Medicine under …
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), part of Public Health England, is recognised worldwide as a best practice model for screening policy and implementation. We look to emerging science to inform our recommendations and while these recommendations (both for …
In 2012, the Chief Medical Officer for England published the first ever 5 Year Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy. A UK High Level Steering Group followed, which acts as the system steward, providing challenge and ensuring all recommendations are enacted. Public Health …
Conversations about public health may have flowed over coffee yesterday (16 Sep), but they also took place online. On Twitter alone more than 1000 people got involved, Tweeting over 4000 times using the #PHE2014 hashtag. This blog provides a brief snapshot …
Today PHE launches Antibiotic Guardian, a pledge campaign which forms a key part of the UK’s support for European Antibiotic Awareness Day and the wider fight against antibiotic resistance. This campaign matters because we have to stop the overuse and …
It helps to have a good sense of humour when things are tough. Anyone who has quit smoking, or knows someone who has, will know that quitting counts as a tough time. Friends and colleagues who have quit tell me …
We all know there can be huge gaps in life expectancy experienced between different stops on the tube or an equivalent bus route, in Bath or Blackpool, Plymouth, Coventry, Nottingham or Sheffield. Familiarity with these gaps can dim their power …
In our last blog post we asked for examples of good data visualisations and two of note were Cancer Research UK's "The causes of cancer you can control" and "Cancer,...
...discussions with end users to find out what they want and need. With that in mind, the Online Services Team focused on transferring: content that users want and need to...
