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Rose Vickridge introduces the new easy read version of Ready Steady Baby, and explains how parents with lived experience were at the centre of developing it.

Following the launch of our Introduction to Public Health Learning Hub, read about our upcoming virtual learning events on how we can all contribute to building better lives for people in Scotland.

Professor Dominic Mellor, Consultant Veterinary Public Health discusses the recent outbreak of avian influenza that has swept across the UK and the importance of monitoring it.

Dr Diane Stockton, Consultant at Public Health Scotland, explains in this blog why simple comparisons of COVID-19 rates in those who are vaccinated and unvaccinated should not be used to assess how effective a vaccine is in preventing serious health outcomes.

Dr Rachael Wood, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, discusses the pioneering work and findings of the ongoing COVID-19 in Pregnancy in Scotland (COPS) study, which seeks to understand the effects of COVID-19 on pregnancy-related issues in Scotland.

Read about how PHS is supporting localised working to improve health and wellbeing within local communities.

Our latest blog focuses on the new online public health learning hub and how it can help all of us to easily answer the question of what public health is.

The Public Health Microbiology Team in PHS discuss tracking the Delta variant and the importance of whole genome sequencing in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sam Whitmore from our Place Standard Tool team talks about the new Climate Lens resource due to complete in spring 2022 to help protect health and combat climate change.

Author Grant Wyper discusses the latest from our Scottish Burden of Disease study, which helps us to show where service improvements and approaches to improve health are needed at local and national levels, to enable people to live longer, healthier lives.