New director Dr Ed Newman reflects on the history of the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, its relevance in a post-COVID world and his plans for its future.
The UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) was created five years ago after the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014-16 to support Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) to prepare for and respond to public health outbreaks. In those …
Global health is focused on improving health and achieving health equity for all people worldwide – meaning working towards the absence of avoidable, unfair, or remediable differences among groups of people. Many health issues and concerns transcend national boundaries and require collaboration between countries to address them and in this blog we explain the role PHE plays.
Images show finished hospital lab in Sierra Leone (top) and the refurbishment process (below) In this blog PHE's Paul Johnstone explains the organisation's involvement in Sierra Leone, from the West African Ebola epidemic to the opening a new hospital laboratory …
I recently spoke to delegates at PHE’s national conference to argue that there has never been a better time to ensure ‘health’ features in every nation’s plans to reduce the impact of disasters. You might feel that this goes without …
“A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving” [Lao Tzu] A few weeks ago, I was asked to give a talk to a group of clinical fellows undertaking work placements at various national organisations including …
Today is World Humanitarian Day (19 August), a day to celebrate those who have dedicated their lives to promoting human welfare. August 19 was selected to commemorate the 2003 bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad, and World Humanitarian Day …
This week we published our Capability Statement which outlines how Public Health England can help low and middle income countries strengthen their public health capacity and respond to outbreaks and emergencies. Of course, in a perfect world, all countries would …
The Sendai Framework was recently adopted by 187 countries, including the UK, at the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR) which took place in Sendai, Japan in March 2015. PHE’s Public Health Strategy Division has worked towards giving public …
Traditional Chinese New Year celebrations, also known as the Spring Festival, start on 19 February 2015 (the Chinese Year of the Goat). The Spring festival is the longest and most important festival in the Chinese calendar, lasting for fifteen days. …
