Public Health

How factors like your location, job or ethnicity can damage your health – UK Health Security Agency

Health inequalities are avoidable differences in health across our populations. You can suffer health inequalities because of where you were born or live, your...
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Child Abuse Prevention Month: Communities Effectively Use Federal Funding to Protect Children

Travel health and the growing risk of antibiotic-resistant STIs like gonorrhoea – UK Health Security Agency

Travel offers exciting adventures, but it's important to protect your health wherever you go. While casual sexual encounters during holidays are common, protecting yourself...

The disease families which require urgent scientific research – UK Health Security Agency

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) was set up to protect health from infectious diseases and environmental hazards. We prepare for future threats to...

Who’s eligible for the 2025 COVID-19 vaccine, or ‘Spring Booster’? – UK Health Security Agency

As we move into spring, protection from any earlier COVID-19 vaccination you may have had will be starting to wane. COVID-19 can still be very...
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Overdose Mortality Is Trending Down, but the Story is Different for...

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‘We should see HIV testing as an essential part of self-care’...

If you are interested in skincare, beauty and wellness, you might know of influencer Andrew Donaldson-Wheatcroft, who has well over 200,000 followers on his...
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Amid Mounting Threats to Indoor Air Quality, Policies to Expand Access...

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Stephen Murphy Promoted to Director of Mid-States Region 

The Network is excited to announce the promotion of Stephen Murphy, J.D., to the position of Director, Mid-States Region. Previously, Stephen held the roles...
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I underwent multiple surgeries, including the amputation of several fingers –...

Meningococcal group C (MenC) disease cases are down by 99% since the vaccination programme was introduced by UKHSA and NHS England in 1999, but...
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A guide to our most popular blog posts of 2024  –...

Lots of people were interested in reading about protecting their health in 2024 – around a million people in fact.   This was the number of...