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Public Health: being more than self-assured

Michael Brodie, 2 April 2014 - Developing our own capacity and capability, Local authority public health

Having started my career as a trainee accountant at South Tyneside Council nearly 25 years ago and returned after a time elsewhere in the public sector to have a stint as Head of Finance, local government still feels like my …

Health and fairness in London

Yvonne Doyle, 31 March 2014 - London Region

...parts of England, despite apparently greater wealth and opportunities: what is behind that? Unfortunately there are also great differences in life expectancy between the richest and poorest in London. PHE...

Joining up national commissioning for sexual and reproductive health and HIV services

Kate Folkard, 27 March 2014 - Health and Wellbeing, Health Protection, Protecting the country's health, Reducing the burden of disease, Sexual health

...a local level is essential. More broadly, to deliver on the opportunities created by the transition in sexual and reproductive health and HIV commissioning arrangements over the last year, real...

Employers working together for the health and wellbeing of their staff

Tony Vickers-Byrne, 26 March 2014 - Improving health in the workplace

The past few weeks have seen PHE involved in some exciting initiatives with other employers who share our commitment to taking good care of the physical health and mental wellbeing of their staff. There is a real groundswell of energy …

Tips and tricks to stay safe from ticks

Jolyon Medlock, 24 March 2014 - Health Protection, Protecting the country's health

...at this time of year much of my time is taken up studying them: their ecology, abundance and the diseases they transmit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzR1eja6Wa8 Ticks are becoming much more common now...

Tackling antibiotic resistance with help from children and young people

Viv Bennett, 19 March 2014 - Giving children and young people the best start in life

...help us tackle the global AMR challenge. Public health support to local partners to work together is vital. One example is ‘school as place’-based work, where school nurses work closely...

Proteomics: studying proteins to fight disease

Christine McCartney, 17 March 2014 - Antimicrobial resistance, Microbiology services, Protecting the country's health

...of the proteome. In PHE, one of the ways that we analyse bacterial proteins is using mass spectrometry (MS) technology. This has helped our scientists to understand more about which...

Getting back on track to eliminating measles

Isabel Oliver, 12 March 2014 - Field epidemiology, Health Protection, Immunisation and vaccination, Protecting the country's health

We have had some fantastic news recently. More children have been vaccinated against measles and the number of measles infections has reduced. This means that we are getting back on track towards eliminating the disease. Measles has been relatively rare …

Freeing babies from being born with HIV

Anne Mackie, 10 March 2014 - Health and Wellbeing, Reducing the burden of disease, Screening

The proportion of HIV-positive diagnosed women passing (transmitting) their infection to their babies in the UK is now at its lowest ever level, having dropped four-fold in 10 years. In...

Syndromic surveillance: our national insurance

Alex Elliot, 6 March 2014 - Health Protection, Protecting the country's health, Real-time syndromic surveillance

...of year. Syndromic surveillance primarily measures the reporting of symptoms caused by anything from flu to norovirus. It’s not simply bugs we look at, either. This surveillance can also measure...