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Glasgow Centre for Population Health @thegcph.bsky.social · Dec 10
📣 New GCPH Publication for Glasgow 850!

From Provand's Lordship to the Red Road Flats, the provision of clean water to the 1915 rent strikes & this year's Housing (Scotland) Bill, this timeline shines a light on events that shaped Glasgow's health www.gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...
850 years of change – A timeline of Glasgow’s health history from 1175 to 2025
850 years of change – A timeline of Glasgow’s health history from 1175 to 2025
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Safe, inclusive public spaces are essential for children’s health, learning and social connection.

Yet access is shrinking: only 44% of urban residents live near open public space.

Cities can change this.

Read the new guide on creating public spaces for children 👉 bit.ly/4jZyksQ
A woman stands beside a swing set in an outdoor playground, watching a young girl swing forward with a smile. The playground is surrounded by grass and apartment buildings in the background. Overlaid text reads, “Open SPACES are the prescription for a healthier childhood."
January 21, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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📣 New GCPH Blog!

Dr Jennifer McLean tells us more about GCPH’s involvement in CoWBELLS – a new Community Wealth Building project examining how place‑based economic strategies can promote wellbeing and help reduce health inequalities. www.gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...

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Our contribution to Scotland’s Community Wealth Building evaluation
Our contribution to Scotland’s Community Wealth Building evaluation
www.gcph.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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Want to know more about the brilliant work of the @glasgowfpp.bsky.social for the Glasgow City Food Plan in 2024-25? Check out their annual report for Year 4, with progress updates for each theme of the Plan. www.gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...
Cover of the Year 4 Glasgow City Food Plan annual report, with the GCFP logo at the centre, and a selection of growing vegetables in the foreground and top corners (including carrots, tomatoes, peas, salads, etc.).
January 19, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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Happy birthday to our partner @glasgow.ac.uk! Founded 575 years ago today, it initially held lectures in the Chapter House of Glasgow Cathedral.

You can find out more about it and Glasgow's health history in our recently published timeline: www.gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...
January 7, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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📣 Our latest newsletter rounds off 2025 with links to our recent work, including:
▶️ Glasgow 850 health history timeline & blog
▶️Glasgow Food Policy Partnership events
▶️Guest blog on the Fundamental Cause Theory seminar
▶️Three new concept explainers
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GCPH December e-update
December 16, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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📣 New Concept Explainer!

Our latest Concept Explainer looks at Health Impact Assessment (HIA), which is recognised as a practical and collaborative tool for embedding health and wellbeing within policy and planning processes.🔽
HIA is defined by Public Health Scotland as a process which systematically judges the potential, and sometimes unintended, effects of a project, program, plan, policy, or strategy on the health of a population and the distribution of those effects within the population. HIA identifies appropriate actions to avoid or mitigate health risks and promote health opportunities. HIA helps decisionmakers think about health, wellbeing, and equality right from the start across areas like housing, transport, planning, and economic development. It can flag up unintended consequences before decisions are made, show how different groups might be affected, and enable community and stakeholder feedback. Because it’s flexible, it can also be used alongside other impact assessments, like Equality Impact Assessments. Although not a statutory requirement in Scotland, HIA is recognised as a practical and collaborative tool for embedding health and wellbeing within policy and planning processes, supporting the Scottish Government’s commitment to reducing health inequalities and advancing the principles of prevention and collaboration across sectors. Most HIAs follow a broadly similar structure which includes six stages: 1. Screening – is it required? 2. Scoping – how will it be delivered? 3. Identification of impacts – how the policy could shape health and equity 4. Appraisal – evidence gathering based on identified impacts 5. Recommendations – actions to enhance or mitigate health impacts 6. Monitoring – implementation of actions
December 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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📣 New GCPH Blog!

'The People Who Made Glasgow' links to our new Glasgow 850 Health History timeline.

It looks at the lives of three Glaswegians & serves as a powerful reminder that each of us has a role to play in collectively shaping our city’s present and future 🔽

www.gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...
Images of James McCune Smith, James Burn Russell and Mary Barbour
December 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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From Provand's Lordship to the Red Road Flats, the provision of clean water to the 1915 rent strikes & this year's Housing (Scotland) Bill, this timeline shines a light on events that shaped Glasgow's health gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...

A quote by historian Prof Simon Szreter helps set the scene...
Public health is an important, if under-recognised, element of the great moral dramas of history – the struggle of peoples for better lives. – Szreter, 2020
December 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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This is an incredible resource of interest to historians, public heath folk, Glasgow nerds and many many more!
thegcph.bsky.social Glasgow Centre for Population Health @thegcph.bsky.social · Dec 10
📣 New GCPH Publication for Glasgow 850!

From Provand's Lordship to the Red Road Flats, the provision of clean water to the 1915 rent strikes & this year's Housing (Scotland) Bill, this timeline shines a light on events that shaped Glasgow's health www.gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...
850 years of change – A timeline of Glasgow’s health history from 1175 to 2025
850 years of change – A timeline of Glasgow’s health history from 1175 to 2025
www.gcph.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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📣 New GCPH Publication for Glasgow 850!

From Provand's Lordship to the Red Road Flats, the provision of clean water to the 1915 rent strikes & this year's Housing (Scotland) Bill, this timeline shines a light on events that shaped Glasgow's health www.gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...
850 years of change – A timeline of Glasgow’s health history from 1175 to 2025
850 years of change – A timeline of Glasgow’s health history from 1175 to 2025
www.gcph.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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We're delighted to launch School Shouldn't Cost: Young People's Poverty and Education Manifesto.

Five key calls set out what thousands of young people across Scotland say should happen to reduce the impact of poverty in their schools.
Find it here: tinyurl.ee/EnLSx
December 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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We are pleased to share a new article, based on a collaboration between GCPH, @commonhealthassets.bsky.social & others, on the economic evaluation of participation in community led organisations for individuals
▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.so...

See also: www.gcph.co.uk/our-work/25-...
CommonHealth Assets
CommonHealth Assets
www.gcph.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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📣 Please share:
Call out to those in North Ayrshire, Clackmannanshire, Fife, Glasgow City Region, South of Scotland & the Western Isles who are staff, volunteers, or trustees from social enterprises, small businesses, housing associations, schools, or trade unions 🔽
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Join the CoWBELLS Public Involvement Panel (PIP) We’re inviting community organisations to take part in an exciting new Public Involvement Panel (PIP) as part of the Community Wealth Building Evaluation Learning Lessons from Scotland (CoWBELLS) research project. CoWBELLS is a 3-year study exploring how Community Wealth Building (CWB) – an approach to creating fairer, more inclusive local economies – impacts health and reduces inequalities. CWB focuses on keeping wealth within communities through five pillars: inclusive ownership, finance, workforce, spending, and land/property. Examples include co-operative food pantries, employee-owned businesses, and community banks. This research will inform Scotland’s upcoming Community Wealth Building Bill, which will require local authorities to implement CWB strategies. What is the PIP? The PIP will bring together up to 18 people from across six areas – North Ayrshire, Clackmannanshire, Fife, Glasgow City Region, South of Scotland, and the Western Isles – who are involved in CWB activities. Members might be staff, volunteers, or trustees from social enterprises, small businesses, housing associations, schools, or trade unions. You don’t need research experience – just practical knowledge of community-led work. Why get involved? Shape important research that could influence policy and support for community organisations. Promote your organisation’s work and connect with others across Scotland. Access training and learning opportunities in evaluation and public health. Visit and learn from CWB projects in other areas. Receive payment for your time (£150 for full-day meetings) plus travel and childcare costs. What’s involved? Panel members will meet roughly every six months to share insights and help guide the research. Sessions will cover topics like refining the project’s Theory of Change and advising on how findings are shared. Interested? Contact Mohasin Ahmed at mohasin.ahmed@glasgow.ac.uk to find out more or sign up.
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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We are pleased to support today's Full of Beans campaign 2.0 event with @uofglasgow.bsky.social, @glasgowcc.bsky.social, @thesoilassociation.bsky.social and others, sharing stories & inspo on all things bean related!
Information desk at the event
November 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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▶️Our webinar on Healthy, Sustainable Food in Glasgow's Universities & Colleges is now online.

@uofglasgow.bsky.social, @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social
& @cofgcollege.bsky.social
showed how sustainable procurement & menu design can affect real change in our food system.

🎦 youtu.be/9Xcl9x0Ecko?...
Recording of Healthy, Sustainable Food in Glasgow’s Universities and Colleges
YouTube video by gcphonline
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November 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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📣 New Concept Explainer!

Our latest in the Concept Explainer series looks at Digital Exclusion and its impacts, linking it with marginalised groups and socioeconomic disadvantage. 🔽
November 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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▶️GCPH's Chris Harkins attended the @palliativescot.bsky.social
Conference today & spoke about the potential of AI within public health & healthcare in Scotland

▶️ Read Chris' earlier AI report here: gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...
Cover of AI report and first presentation slide
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Really happy to have co-authored this blog with Mhairi and David. Was a pleasure to work closely with Bruce Link and Jo Phelan as well, whose ideas have been hugely influential in my own research. Read below!
thegcph.bsky.social Glasgow Centre for Population Health @thegcph.bsky.social · Nov 6
📣 New Blog!
In this blog, Mhairi Mackenzie @uofgussp.bsky.social describes Fundamental Cause Theory and presents an important framework on how to mitigate rather than exacerbate inequalities, and how to actively work to undo fundamental causes of health inequalities
www.gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...
Thirty years on: reflecting on Fundamental Cause Theory and its implications for action
Thirty years on: reflecting on Fundamental Cause Theory and its implications for action
www.gcph.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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📣 New Blog!
In this blog, Mhairi Mackenzie @uofgussp.bsky.social describes Fundamental Cause Theory and presents an important framework on how to mitigate rather than exacerbate inequalities, and how to actively work to undo fundamental causes of health inequalities
www.gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...
Thirty years on: reflecting on Fundamental Cause Theory and its implications for action
Thirty years on: reflecting on Fundamental Cause Theory and its implications for action
www.gcph.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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📣 New Concept Explainer!

Our most recent in the series looks at racism as a fundamental driver of health inequalities, influencing susceptibility to illness, the quality of healthcare received, and access to essential resources among racialised minority groups.
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Racism as a determinant of health Racism is widely acknowledged as a fundamental driver of health inequalities Racism can be experienced in many ways It also affects the care people receive
November 3, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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📣 New Blog!
Continuing this #BlackHistoryMonth, this guest blog shines a light on the lived experience of Black women in the UK, and was written by Melanie Allen-Clarke, who shares her birthing story in the context of her research on Black maternal health in the UK.
www.gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...
When giving birth becomes a risk: a Black woman’s story
When giving birth becomes a risk: a Black woman’s story
www.gcph.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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📣 New Blog!

Our penultimate #BlackHistoryMonth guest blog examines the injustices of social health determinants: how these are shaped and can be addressed.
www.gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...
The injustices of social health determinants: how these are shaped and can be addressed
The injustices of social health determinants: how these are shaped and can be addressed
www.gcph.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Some key facts from our new Glasgow City Ethnicity Profile, published today gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...

#HDRCGlasgow
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Infographic of key facts from Glasgow City Ethnicity Profile
October 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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📣 Our new Glasgow City Ethnicity Profile is published today 🔽 gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...

#HDRCGlasgow, @glasgowcc.bsky.social
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Quote saying "Overall, evidence points to racialised health inequalities and greater vulnerability to long term conditions... Despite these challenges, Glasgow’s diversity is also a source of resilience, innovation and strength, enriching the city socially, economically and culturally"
October 23, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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📣 New Report

Glasgow City Ethnicity Profile provides evidence relating to ethnicity, disadvantage & health, and is part of our ongoing work with Glasgow's Health Determinants Research Collaboration (#HDRCGlasgow),
@glasgowcc.bsky.social & @nihr.bsky.social

www.gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...
Glasgow City ethnicity profile
Glasgow City ethnicity profile
www.gcph.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM