Wider Public Health Workforce Education Pathways

RSPH launches Education Pathways for the wider Public Health workforce.

RSPH welcomes Prime Minister's announcement on raising legal age of sale of tobacco products

RSPH welcomes Prime Minister's announcement on raising legal age of sale of tobacco products.

It takes an army of people to get public health right…

The public health workforce is vast. Taking the Faculty of Public Health’s definition of public health – “the science and art of promoting and protecting health by the organised efforts of society” – as a starting point, it soon becomes clear just how vast!

Priorities for Supporting the Wider Public Health Workforce

The wider public health workforce plays a vital role in supporting and delivering public health across a huge range of settings.

RSPH celebrates the second Public Health Workforce Week (2-6 October, 2023)

RSPH celebrates Public Health Workforce Week as new polling shows that 82% of the public think that the public health workforce is crucial to safeguarding the nation’s health.

RSPH announces 2023 Honorary Fellowships and Special Awards

Royal Society for Public Health Annual General Meeting 2023 21 September 2023

RSPH Accredits regional Making Every Contact Count training programme

The RSPH now accredits the North East and North Cumbria ICS Making Every Contact Count (MECC) training programme.

RSPH co-sign letter to the health workforce on support for having conversations with patients and families about school attendance.

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have stretched well beyond the health sector. In particular, there has been a rise in school absences, with a large proportion attributable to illness.

175th anniversary of the 1848 Public Health Act

Today is the 175th anniversary of the 1848 Public Health Act. This piece of legislation is a milestone in the history of public health,

RSPH Member Spotlight Samantha Henry

My vision is to pursue a career in public health to assist in improving my country's healthcare system. 

Guest Blog: Michael Chang

Programme Manager for Spatial Planning and Health at the UK Office for Health Improvement and Disparities and PhD student at the University of Bristol

Public health and financial insecurity report

A report from RSPH and Hull City Council examining the types, causes, and impact of financial insecurity

Supporting the wider public health workforce 2023

RSPH is committed to supporting the wider public health workforce.

Blog: U-Turns Don’t Happen Overnight: The Campaign that led the Government to change its policy on summer holiday provision

In 2022 The Food Foundation were RSPH Health and Wellbeing Awards, Health Equity, finalists for their End Child Food Poverty Coalition. Read this blog on the success of their campaign and the distance still to go.

Royal Society for Public Health commemorates 75 years of the NHS

Today marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the NHS. Chief Executive of RSPH, William Roberts, commemorates the NHS that has been our backbone for public health for 75 years.

MECC for Mental Health Trainer Spotlight: Lindsay Jayes

Lindsay Jayes, a Student Midwife at the University of Cumbria, describes her experience of becoming a MECC for Mental Health for PEFS pilot Trainer.

Joint statement: Public health and poverty

Joint Statement: Public Health and Poverty - the impact of poverty on public health

RSPH Member Spotlight: Dr Emily Diamond

This month we meet RSPH Fellow Dr Emily Diamond FRSPH, a professor at the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California.

Blog: Our vision for public health for the next five years

RSPH Chair of Council, Dr Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard FRSPH FFPH, and RSPH Chief Executive, William Roberts FRSPH, blog on our vision for public health for the next five years.

MECC for Mental Health Lead Trainer Spotlight: Michelle Walker

Michelle Walker, community Wellbeing Coordinator at Burnley, Pendle & Rossendale CVS, describes her experience as a Making Every Contact Count (MECC) for Mental Health Trainer.