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Young people from across Scotland have worked with PHS to co-produce a programme to improve mental wellbeing in Scotland. The project marks the start of a longer-term commitment to ensure public health work relating to young people is developed and delivered in partnership. Emily Breedon, Co-design officer at Young Scot, shares more about the collaborative experience.

In this blog post, Dr Kimberly Marsh, Consultant Healthcare Scientist and Dr Kirsty Roy, Consultant in Health Protection at Public Health Scotland explain how the first cases of severe hepatitis in children were identified in Scotland and what public health actions were taken in response.

COVID-19 has focused our minds on how life-giving vaccines can be. In our latest blog, read how vaccination has been preventing severe illness and death from a range of diseases for a long time, and continues to improve quality of life.

Access to fair and sustainable travel has health, social, economic and environmental benefits. On World Health Day, the Chair of the Public Health and Sustainable Transport Group blogs for us on transport trends linked to the pandemic and policy responses to positively impact communities.

In 2020 we made a film to show how children & young people believe that good relationships are key to their mental wellbeing. After almost two school years during the pandemic, Carly Grant explains why relationships have never been more important.

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.