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The UK's professional membership body for #publichealth. We work with our members to protect and improve health for all. www.fph.org.uk
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Did you know that good health is about complete physical, mental and social wellbeing - not merely the absence of disease?

Watch our new video explaining how public health professionals support our journey towards a healthy, happy life!

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What Is Public Health?
YouTube video by UK Faculty of Public Health
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#FossilFuel reliance poses a serious risk to human health.

At this #COP30 side event, public health, human rights, & energy experts join forces to highlight the #climate & human risks of fossil fuels + how policy-makers can take action.

Learn more: www.iisd.org/events/cop30...
November 18, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🧵 #5FromFPH – Five highlights from the Faculty and our partners this week as we work together to support Better Health For All, leaving no one behind.
November 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
FPH has launched a new Special Interest Group: Pandemic Preparedness and Response, which is now open to new members.

Find out more here: www.fph.org.uk/policy-advoc...
Pandemic Preparedness SIG
Pandemic Preparedness SIG
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November 14, 2025 at 1:04 PM
A few of our FPH events ahead!

📅 ️[24/11] - The future of the NHS and Public Health

📅 [25/11] - Violence Prevention in Youth Populations

📅 [25/11] - Enabling older workers to stay and return to work

Register and see more ➡️ ️www.fph.org.uk/events-courses-exams/
November 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The Faculty of Public Health has joined 100+ others in calling for the government to fully scrap the two-child limit in full to turn the tide on child poverty.

Read more cpag.org.uk/news/letter-...
Letter warning government against 'half-measures' on two-child limit
As this government recognises, every child deserves the best start in life. But a record 4.5 million children live in poverty. Their life chances are being held back and their potential wasted. They d...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
If you’re a public health professional considering your next career move, or an organisation looking to recruit, the FPH Careers Board offers a wide range of opportunities across the sector.

Explore current vacancies or post a job here: careers.fph.org.uk
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November 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
For more than 1 in 4 of us in the UK, our homes could be making us ill because we
have issues like damp, cold and mould.

We shouldn't have to wear a hazmat suit to stay warm and healthy in our homes.

FPH is joining @healthequals.bsky.social in calling for a real solution. 👉 bit.ly/3LqMOo9
Hazmat Loungewear | Health Equals
1 in 4 of us are living in homes that could make us ill from issues like damp, cold and mould. It's time to change that and #MakeHealthEqual.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The Faculty of Public Health proudly represents a multi-disciplinary specialty, and strongly supports opening the availability of NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship posts to all Public Health Specialty Registrars regardless of professional background.

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Statement on Academic Clinical Fellowships (ACFs)
As the professional membership body representing a proudly multi-disciplinary specialty, the Faculty of Public Health strongly supports opening the availability of NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship (A...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Half of UK workers aged 50–65 leave work before retirement. How can we change that?

Join FPH, SOM & Centre for Ageing Better for an online webinar on enabling older workers to stay and return to work.

Find out more and register www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
Enabling older workers to stay and return to work – Society of Occupational Medicine supported by the Centre for Ageing Better
The UK Economy needs older workers, yet half the workforce aged 50-65 leave before retirement. Current local delivery of programmes to reduce inactivity due to ill health often ignores this key group,...
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November 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
FPH members are invited to register for tomorrow’ online webinar: An overview of non-communicable diseases in the Gulf region.

Hosted by the Gulf SIG, this webinar will provide an overview of non-communicable diseases in the Gulf Region.

Register on our website www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
An overview of non-communicable diseases in the Gulf region
An overview of non-communicable diseases in the Gulf region
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November 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🌍 Today marks the start of COP30, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, taking place in Belem, Brazil.

FPH is co-hosting a COP30 side event with global partners at the WHO Health Pavilion on Nov 19, 15:30 GFT (18:30 GMT).

Livestream available: www.who.int/news-room/ev...
COP30 Health Pavilion
WHO in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust and the health community will host the Health Pavilion at the COP30 UN Climate Conference, taking place in Belém, Brazil, from 10 to 21 November 2025. The ...
www.who.int
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🧵 #5FromFPH – Five highlights from the Faculty and our partners this week as we work together to support Better Health For All, leaving no one behind.
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
In October, our Sexual and Reproductive Health SIG led the FPH response to a consultation on reproductive health conditions - welcoming the move towards a greater focus on the health inequalities experienced by girls and women.

Read the full response here www.fph.org.uk/media/pxyh2b...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
A few of our FPH events ahead

- An overview of non-communicable diseases in the Gulf region
- The future of the NHS and Public Health
- Violence Prevention in Youth Populations
- Enabling older workers to stay and return to work

See more events and register www.fph.org.uk/events-courses-exams/
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
FPH is co-hosting a COP30 side event with global partners at the WHO Health Pavilion: ‘People, policy and research power to document and address the health harms of fossil fuels and industry practices’. Join us on Nov 19, 15:30 GFT (18:30 GMT).

Livestream available www.who.int/news-room/ev...
COP30 Health Pavilion
WHO in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust and the health community will host the Health Pavilion at the COP30 UN Climate Conference, taking place in Belém, Brazil, from 10 to 21 November 2025. The ...
www.who.int
November 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
The Faculty of Public Health has launched a comprehensive review of the Specialty Training Curriculum.

All Faculty members have been emailed with a link to a consultation survey - help us shape the future of public health training.

You can find out more here: www.fph.org.uk/training-car...
Curiculum Review - FPH
Details of the Faculty of Public Healths curriculum review delivered in 2025
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November 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Ahead of Ella’s Law being re-introduced to Parliament this week, FPH, RCPCH & BACAPH reaffirm their support for the Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill.

If passed, it would make clean air a basic human right and require the UK to meet WHO air quality standards in every community.

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FPH, RCPCH and BACAPH – joint statement on re-introduction of the Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill
The UK Faculty of Public Health (FPH), the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), and the British Association for Child and Adolescent Public Health (BACAPH) strongly support the re-in...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Join the Equality, Inclusion and Diversity and Healthy Places SIG for an online webinar - Healthy Places: Disability Inclusion by Design.

This webinar will showcase how inclusive design in transport and urban planning can empower disabled communities.

Register www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
Healthy Places: Disability Inclusion by Design
This webinar will showcase innovative work in transport and urban planning that includes disabled people in shaping urban spaces and systems.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🧵 #5FromFPH – Five highlights from the Faculty and our partners this week as we work together to support Better Health For All, leaving no one behind.
October 31, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The harms of car dependency go far beyond traffic jams.

In a blog published by the Faculty, Jennifer Mindell and Eleanor Lyons explore how cars act as commercial determinants of health, contributing to pollution, noise, road danger, and inequalities.

Read the blog www.fph.org.uk/blog/cars-as...
Cars as commercial determinants of health
Transport is important for health.
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October 31, 2025 at 9:28 AM
FPH events ahead!

- Making the Case for Clinical Research from a Public Health Perspective
- Poverty and chronic pain
- An overview of non-communicable diseases in the Gulf region
- Violence Prevention in Youth Populations
- Healthy Places
- Launching MPOWER+

www.fph.org.uk/events-courses-exams/
October 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
FPH is co-hosting a COP30 side event with global partners at the WHO Health Pavilion: ‘People, policy and research power to document and address the health harms of fossil fuels and industry practices’. Join us on Nov 19, 15:30 GFT (18:30 GMT).

Livestream available: www.who.int/news-room/ev...
COP30 Health Pavilion
WHO in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust and the health community will host the Health Pavilion at the COP30 UN Climate Conference, taking place in Belém, Brazil, from 10 to 21 November 2025. The ...
www.who.int
October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
FPH members are invited to register for the online webinar: An overview of non-communicable diseases in the Gulf region.

Hosted by the Gulf SIG, this webinar will provide an overview of non-communicable diseases in the Gulf Region.

Register on our website www.fph.org.uk/events-cours...
An overview of non-communicable diseases in the Gulf region
An overview of non-communicable diseases in the Gulf region
www.fph.org.uk
October 28, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Reposted by Faculty of Public Health
📢 Over 1,200 public health professionals have written to health spokespeople from all parties, urging swift passage of the Tobacco & Vapes Bill - a historic chance to protect future generations. 🚭✨

✉️ Read the letter: shorturl.at/4Miyl
October 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
With the first Committee session on the Tobacco & Vapes Bill taking place today, FPH has joined with cross-sector health partners to support the swift implementation of this historic legislation.

Read the full letter here: ash.org.uk/media-centre...

@ashorguk.bsky.social
Health Leaders Demand Action on Generational Smoking Ban - ASH
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is a campaigning public health charity that works to eliminate the harm caused by tobacco.
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October 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM