Public Health
How we protect the UK from vector-borne diseases like dengue and West Nile virus – UK Health Security Agency
Vector-borne diseases - illnesses transmitted to humans by organisms such as mosquitoes and ticks - account for more than 17% of all infectious diseases...
Proposed Legislation to Boycott Opioid Manufacturers Would Undermine the Public Health Response to Opioid Overdose
Over the past year, several bills that would impose novel restrictions on the purchasing of naloxone and other opioid antagonists (medications that reverse opioid...
Racial Equity Impact Assessments: A Valuable, Yet Underutilized, Tool to Address Structural Racism
Structural racism and other forms of discrimination are deeply embedded in laws, policies, and government actions. However, law can also be used to confront...
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...
How cutting-edge AI technology could hold the key to forecasting the...
Pinaceae (pine) pollen
On the roof of a UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) lab, at Chilton’s Harwell Science Campus in Oxfordshire, a new chapter in...
Network for Public Health Law Among Leading Public Health Organizations Joining...
The Network for Public Health Law (Network) announced today it has joined an amicus brief in the Moyle v. United States case before the...
How are we tracking mpox in the UK? – UK Health...
Surveillance is the ability to identify potential threats as quickly as possible and share the resulting data widely. It is one of the tools...
Your guide to who’s eligible for the 2024 flu vaccine –...
As we approach winter, it’s time for people at risk to be booked in for their free flu jab. If you’re eligible, you need...
