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COVID-19 has had a huge impact on life in Scotland and understanding how many people have had the virus, particularly those working in an education setting doing a variety of roles, and how this changes over time will inform the measures taken to limit risk and strengthen the ongoing pandemic response. The COVID-19 Antibody Survey in education Staff (CASS), launching today, will help identify the proportion of people working in an education setting in Scotland who have had coronavirus by testing for antibodies in their blood.

Public Health Scotland has launched its first strategic plan.

Experts from Public Health Scotland will today join a virtual roundtable on problem drug use.

A new Public Health Scotland publication suggests that people who were advised to shield have mostly followed this advice – but the shielding experience has been difficult, in particular for socio-economically vulnerable groups.

An analysis of responses to relevant questions in the 2013, 2015 and 2019 Scottish Social Attitude Surveys (SSAS), which asked a representative sample of the Scottish adult population about their attitudes to Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP).

Public Health Scotland has published a report on taking a human rights approach to the recovery from COVID-19

Public Health Scotland welcomes the launch of the new brand and suicide prevention campaign by the National Suicide Prevention Leadership Group (NSPLG).

Report written by Public Health Scotland, UK Collaborative Centre of Housing Evidence (CaCHE) and HACT for the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA), Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and the Rural and Islands Housing Associations Forum (RIHAF) is published.

Public Health Scotland respond to the Scottish Government’s 2020-21 Programme for Government.

Public Health Scotland have published analysis of the underlying causes that have contributed to those non-COVID-19 excess deaths.