In this blog post, we share more information about what mpox is, the different clades, the key symptoms and how UKHSA is working with partners to respond to the outbreak.
In this blog PHE Director of Global Health Brian McCloskey answers some of the public health questions currently being raised in the media and via social media, about Ebola. The West Africa Ebola outbreak is an evolving situation and we …
Next month the premature and preventable mortality data in the Public Health Outcomes Framework and in Longer Lives is being updated and refreshed. Mortality and dying data is a subject that generates much debate and mortality statistics are often in the news. …
We don’t think homelessness will happen to us, our family or friends. People living on the street didn’t think it would happen to them. We don’t plan for homelessness. It often results from a combination of events such as relationship …
For nearly 20 years England has been doing great work to tackle the harms caused by smoking. Cigarette advertising is banned, the age of sale for tobacco has been increased to 18 and enclosed public places have been smokefree since …
Health is an incredibly personal matter. So when thinking about whether to go to the doctor, have a check-up or take up an offer of screening, people should know exactly what is involved to enable them to make a choice …
Some sections of society have poorer health than others. Most strikingly, people from the most affluent areas of the country will have almost 20 more years of healthy life than those in the most disadvantaged areas. This is a central …
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 …
