Healthy Places
Playground Rules: Boosting physical activity for children
RSPH’s new report sets out how schools can play a role in ensuring children are physically active.
Published 23 Jun 2025
Discover the latest work from RSPH driving change in public health.
Advocating for change through first class research
The health landscape in the UK is facing unprecedented challenges. Through our publications, we explore the ideas that could make a difference to the lives of communities in the UK and globally – whether through our in-house reports or through our academic journals surfacing research at the forefront of public health.
Our policy and influencing team regularly produces reports addressing the issues affecting the lives of people across the UK and advocates for improving the lives and health of the public, whether it's mental health, vaccinations, the workforce or ensuring health in all places.
For historical reports not shown below, please contact [email protected] to request a copy. All RSPH reports reflect the views and priorities of RSPH at the time of publication.
Healthy Places
RSPH’s new report sets out how schools can play a role in ensuring children are physically active.
Published 23 Jun 2025
Mental health
This RSPH report examines the Make Every Contact Count (MECC) approach to improving health outcomes.
Published 19 May 2025
Healthy Places
The high street is a British institution. This report explores what needs to be done so that high streets not only thrive but also support the local community to do the same.
Published 13 May 2025
Alongside our internally produced reports, RSPH publishes three academic journals covering the breath of public health research, discussion and practice, with global contributions from esteemed experts.
As one of the world’s oldest public health journals, this journal publishes everything from epidemiology to public health law. Available to RSPH Fellows for free.
Available to RSPH Members for free, this journal combines peer-reviewed research and reviews with practice-based current topic and opinion articles.
This gold open access journal publishes international articles focused on the art of translating and implementing public health evidence into practice.
Vaccinations
Understanding what 50-70 year old people think about current and future respiratory vaccines is crucial for us to plan delivery in a way that works for them. In this report, we explore what older adults think about vaccines for respiratory illnesses.
Published 1 Sep 2024
Workforce
RSPH's landmark report calls for better support and recognition of the public health workforce.
Published 19 Mar 2024
Vaccinations
Our first-of-its-kind report asked a nationally representative group of children and young people about their views on vaccinations.
Published 1 Mar 2023
Healthy Places
In 2022, RSPH published a timely report on the link between poverty, public health and the cost-of-living crisis
Published 1 Dec 2022
Vaccinations
London has one of the lowest flu vaccine uptake in the country. We explore in this report what can be done to close the vaccine coverage gap between London and the rest of the UK.
Published 1 Feb 2021
Healthy Places
In 2019, RSPH published a report examining the dire state of the UK's public conveniences, the impact this has on health and wellbeing, and public perceptions of what should be done.
Published 1 May 2019
Vaccinations
Vaccinations play an important role in keeping us healthy from early childhood to working-age adulthood and later life. This report explores how to encourage vaccination uptake and address misinformation.
Published 21 Jan 2019
Workforce
Supporting healthcare professions to record and measure their public health impact.
Published 1 Jun 2017
Mental health
In 2017, RSPH published a groundbreaking report on the effects of social media on the mental health of young people.
Published 1 May 2017