Earlier this year, we secured funding from The Health Foundation to carry out three in-depth projects which will each last three years. Each project will involve close collaboration with existing partners, as well as organisations that do not necessarily think of themselves as public health, and involve members and partners from all four nations.
By taking this approach, we will showcase examples of good practice and develop guidance and tools that will support local public health teams and their partners to improve and protect the health of their populations.
This project aims to develop long term collaborative relationships between planning and public health in local areas with a specific focus on Health Impact Assessments. Relevant outputs will be developed to support public health policy and practice locally.
This project aims to develop stronger partnerships across the children’s sector and will build on our ACEs work. We will share learning from different approaches across the UK to improve public health practice and reduce health inequalities for children and young people.
This project will seek to support local public health teams and their partners to increase awareness of the commercial determinants of health and develop guidance for local DsPH on how to work positively with local business, whilst combating negative CDOH.
Tragically, over 220,000 people lost their lives to Covid-19 and thousands of people continue to experience ongoing health problems after having Covid. So, it is vitally important that we learn from the Inquiry’s findings and honour everyone who has been – and continues to be – affected.
The public inquiry provides an invaluable opportunity to examine the response to, and impact of, the pandemic and we are fully committed to supporting its work in any way we can.
Find out more about our contribution to the Covid-19 Public Inquiry.
In June, 2019 ADPH and Public Health England (PHE) published a series of co-produced documents entitled What Good Looks Like (WGLL) that set out the guiding principles of ‘what good quality looks like’ for population health programmes in local systems. They are intended as a tool to assist in the sector-led improvement process and to support local resource decisions. The initial series includes ten publications covering a range of topics across public health.
We are now undergoing a review of the old WGLL documents and will be creating new versions to inform public health practice.
