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Our latest blog from Jenny Smith, Health Improvement Manager and Suicide Prevention Implementation Lead, marks World Suicide Prevention Day 2024 and focuses on changing the narrative around suicide.

Following publication of our last round of the COVID-19 Early Years Resilience and Impact Survey (CEYRIS), partners provided their reflections on the results and how the evidence is supporting and shaping their own work.

The summer holidays are once again coming to an end and one of the most important things parents can include in their back-to-school planning is to check if their child’s immunisation record is up to date.

In this blog, Public Health Scotland's (PHS) Director of Public Health Science, Dr Nick Phin, shares some top tips to help you stay safe and well this spring.

This week sees the annual crossover of Mental Health Awareness Week and Green Health Week. Ruairi O’Brien, Health Improvement Officer in the Public Mental Health Team, presents a view on the links between the two.

Guest blog contributor and Chief Executive of the Cyrenians homeless charity, Ewan Aitken, tells us about the current housing crisis in Scotland and how taking a public health approach can be part of the solution

In this blog, Dr Sam Ghebrehewet, Head of Vaccination and Immunisation at Public Health Scotland, reflects on this year’s World Immunisation Week theme. He also emphasises the importance of ensuring the successes in using vaccines to prevent diseases continue in the face of global challenges.

In our latest blog, Emma Doyle, Organisational Lead for Housing and Homelessness at Public Health Scotland, discusses the current of a lack of affordable housing and it's impact on the  levels of people experiencing homelessness in Scotland.

Tanya Rhodes (PHS) and Mairead Gardner (NSS/Sustainability Action) speak to Dietitian, Rosa Holt, and Waste Manager, Neil Duncan at NHS Grampian about a simple but innovative project to reduce plastic waste.

In our latest blog, Lee Barnsdale, Programme Portfolio Manager in the Drugs Team at Public Health Scotland, discusses the development of a new methodology to estimate the number of people who are dependent on opioids in Scotland and why this is important.