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This Infant Mental Health Awareness Week, Dr Megan Watson, Public Health Intelligence Adviser at PHS shares her reflections on the impact the pandemic has had on the mental health and wellbeing of families across Scotland.

Scotland has a vision where suicide is preventable; where help and support is available to anyone contemplating suicide and to those who have lost a loved one to suicide. Shirley Windsor, Organisational Lead for Public Mental Health, reflects on the wide range of work PHS has been involved in and how it will continue with the launch of the new strategy and action plan.

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.

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

Colleagues from our healthcare audits service area explain how accurate and robust data supports better decision making to improve clinical practice and patient care.

This Green Health Week, Professor Dominic Mellor, Consultant in Veterinary Public Health at Public Health Scotland, discusses the importance of being bug and germ aware while exploring the outdoors.

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.

June is Gypsy, Roma, Traveller History month (GRTHM) - an opportunity to raise awareness of and celebrate Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history, culture and heritage.

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.

Diane Stockton shares how data collected through our Enhanced COVID-19 Surveillance in Education Programme is supporting a safe return to school in the new 2021 term.