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Pregnancy is also the start of an immunisation journey. We’re all familiar with the vaccines that are offered to us throughout our lives to protect us from diseases. Those offered during pregnancy can protect mothers and their babies from the risks of serious illness - both during pregnancy and on into babies’ early vital days.

Dr Claire Cameron, Consultant in Health Protection at PHS, writes about the Human Papillomavirus Virus (HPV) and how Scotland has committed to its eradication.

Dr Fiona Scott, Public Health Registrar at NHS Tayside joined Public Health Scotland (PHS) for a year to work on the health impact assessment of community wealth building. Here, she reflects on the importance of the economy for health in local communities.

Scott Heald, Director of Data and Digital Innovation and Head of Profession for Statistics at Public Health Scotland, discusses the importance of keeping people at the centre of data improvement.

With cases of Tuberculosis (TB) increasing in Scotland, Hazel Henderson, Consultant in Public Health and Lead of the Respiratory Bacterial Pathogens team at PHS, has written in our latest blog about the importance of surveillance in understanding and beating this persistent, curable and preventable disease.

Viruses change over time and that means our public health response does too, which includes our vaccination programmes. Consultant in Public Health from our Vaccination and Immunisation Division Dr Daniel Chandler outlines changes to this year’s COVID-19 vaccination programme in our latest blog.

In our latest blog, Rishma Maini, Consultant in Public Health and Co-lead of Clinical Health Intelligence and Research Division at PHS, reflects on her recent attendance at the Scottish Prevention Hub’s conference in Edinburgh, which brought researchers, policy makers and community leaders together to discuss how we turn evidence into practice.

Public Health Scotland (PHS), in collaboration with the Universities of Glasgow, Strathclyde, Edinburgh and Oxford, have published a groundbreaking study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, showing that infants under three months of age, whose mothers received the RSV vaccination during pregnancy, had around 80% reduced risk of hospitalisation due to an RSV infection compared to infants whose mothers were unvaccinated.

Alison Owens, Health Improvement Manager, discusses Public Health Scotland’s (PHS) engagement with the community food sector and the opportunities involving them in local decision-making brings —in particular in the development of Good Food Nation plans.

Flu season has arrived about a month earlier than usual in Scotland, and cases are rising rapidly. Early data across the UK suggest that a new “drifted” type of flu virus may be circulating this winter.