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ADPHUK President @felly500.bsky.social has just opened #ADPHConf25.
This year, we are talking about the 'greatest hits' of #PublicHealth - why they worked, what we can learn from their success, and what we need to do now to prevent ill health and improve health and wellbeing for EVERYone.
This year, we are talking about the 'greatest hits' of #PublicHealth - why they worked, what we can learn from their success, and what we need to do now to prevent ill health and improve health and wellbeing for EVERYone.
November 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Getting closer to the deadline for applications for our Public Health Consultant vacancies
Somerset Public Health is seeking two full-time Consultants in Public Health to join our experienced and supportive team.
📄 Find out more and apply: www.somerset.gov.uk/jobs-and-car...
📧 For an informal discussion, please contact our DPH at alison.bell@somerset.gov.uk
#PublicHealth
📄 Find out more and apply: www.somerset.gov.uk/jobs-and-car...
📧 For an informal discussion, please contact our DPH at alison.bell@somerset.gov.uk
#PublicHealth
Job
www.somerset.gov.uk
October 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Getting closer to the deadline for applications for our Public Health Consultant vacancies
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This film shows the power of peer mentors. People with lived experience using it to support others. A reminder that recovery is about health, hope & strength. 💚
#SomersetDrug&AlcoholService #Recovery #PeerMentors #Somerset
#SomersetDrug&AlcoholService #Recovery #PeerMentors #Somerset
Celebrating Recovery - Peer Mentor Graduation Day
YouTube video by Somerset Council
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October 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This film shows the power of peer mentors. People with lived experience using it to support others. A reminder that recovery is about health, hope & strength. 💚
#SomersetDrug&AlcoholService #Recovery #PeerMentors #Somerset
#SomersetDrug&AlcoholService #Recovery #PeerMentors #Somerset
Hi, come and work with us @somersetpubhealth.bsky.social
Somerset Public Health is seeking two full-time Consultants in Public Health to join our experienced and supportive team.
📄 Find out more and apply: www.somerset.gov.uk/jobs-and-car...
📧 For an informal discussion, please contact our DPH at alison.bell@somerset.gov.uk
#PublicHealth
📄 Find out more and apply: www.somerset.gov.uk/jobs-and-car...
📧 For an informal discussion, please contact our DPH at alison.bell@somerset.gov.uk
#PublicHealth
Job
www.somerset.gov.uk
October 1, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Hi, come and work with us @somersetpubhealth.bsky.social
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Somerset Public Health is seeking two full-time Consultants in Public Health to join our experienced and supportive team.
📄 Find out more and apply: www.somerset.gov.uk/jobs-and-car...
📧 For an informal discussion, please contact our DPH at alison.bell@somerset.gov.uk
#PublicHealth
📄 Find out more and apply: www.somerset.gov.uk/jobs-and-car...
📧 For an informal discussion, please contact our DPH at alison.bell@somerset.gov.uk
#PublicHealth
Job
www.somerset.gov.uk
September 22, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Somerset Public Health is seeking two full-time Consultants in Public Health to join our experienced and supportive team.
📄 Find out more and apply: www.somerset.gov.uk/jobs-and-car...
📧 For an informal discussion, please contact our DPH at alison.bell@somerset.gov.uk
#PublicHealth
📄 Find out more and apply: www.somerset.gov.uk/jobs-and-car...
📧 For an informal discussion, please contact our DPH at alison.bell@somerset.gov.uk
#PublicHealth
Come and work in our team as a Specialist in Public Health
We are looking to appoint an enthusiastic & innovative Specialist in Public Health initially working against the priority areas of Children & Young People, Best Start in Life & Public Mental Health. To apply, visit:
www.somerset.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/job/?jobId=6735 #PublicHealthSomerset
www.somerset.gov.uk/jobs-and-careers/job/?jobId=6735 #PublicHealthSomerset
Job
www.somerset.gov.uk
September 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Come and work in our team as a Specialist in Public Health
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This week we are Supporting Blood Pressure UK’s #KnowYourNumbersWeek
Nick shares his story of being diagnosed with high blood pressure.
youtu.be/c7R7yC8nibM?...
Check your blood pressure by borrowing a monitor for free from any somerset library.
#TakeThePressureOff #PublicHealthSomerset
Nick shares his story of being diagnosed with high blood pressure.
youtu.be/c7R7yC8nibM?...
Check your blood pressure by borrowing a monitor for free from any somerset library.
#TakeThePressureOff #PublicHealthSomerset
Know Your Numbers - It Could Change Your Story
YouTube video by Somerset Council
youtu.be
September 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
This week we are Supporting Blood Pressure UK’s #KnowYourNumbersWeek
Nick shares his story of being diagnosed with high blood pressure.
youtu.be/c7R7yC8nibM?...
Check your blood pressure by borrowing a monitor for free from any somerset library.
#TakeThePressureOff #PublicHealthSomerset
Nick shares his story of being diagnosed with high blood pressure.
youtu.be/c7R7yC8nibM?...
Check your blood pressure by borrowing a monitor for free from any somerset library.
#TakeThePressureOff #PublicHealthSomerset
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Had your breast-screening invite?
✅ Yes → book now – mobile units are close to home.
📬 No → watch the post, your letter’s coming.
Screening saves lives by finding problems early.
“I’ve booked mine - please book yours.” - Alison Bell, Director of Public Health
#BreastScreening #EarlyDetection
✅ Yes → book now – mobile units are close to home.
📬 No → watch the post, your letter’s coming.
Screening saves lives by finding problems early.
“I’ve booked mine - please book yours.” - Alison Bell, Director of Public Health
#BreastScreening #EarlyDetection
September 15, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Had your breast-screening invite?
✅ Yes → book now – mobile units are close to home.
📬 No → watch the post, your letter’s coming.
Screening saves lives by finding problems early.
“I’ve booked mine - please book yours.” - Alison Bell, Director of Public Health
#BreastScreening #EarlyDetection
✅ Yes → book now – mobile units are close to home.
📬 No → watch the post, your letter’s coming.
Screening saves lives by finding problems early.
“I’ve booked mine - please book yours.” - Alison Bell, Director of Public Health
#BreastScreening #EarlyDetection
Thanks colleagues at #SASP for an energising day, focused on how we reap the health benefits of getting our population moving
Great to be at the Somerset Moves Conference today, hearing brilliant insights from our panel including our Director of Public Health – on how we can all help communities be more active. #SomersetMoves #EveryMoveMatters
September 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Thanks colleagues at #SASP for an energising day, focused on how we reap the health benefits of getting our population moving
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✨ Reflecting on Walk for a Life 2025 ✨
Coming together with our Somerset community to remember loved ones and talk openly about suicide prevention meant so much. Thank you to everyone who joined or supported - every step helps change the conversation. 💛 #WalkForALife #SuicidePrevention #Somerset
Coming together with our Somerset community to remember loved ones and talk openly about suicide prevention meant so much. Thank you to everyone who joined or supported - every step helps change the conversation. 💛 #WalkForALife #SuicidePrevention #Somerset
September 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
✨ Reflecting on Walk for a Life 2025 ✨
Coming together with our Somerset community to remember loved ones and talk openly about suicide prevention meant so much. Thank you to everyone who joined or supported - every step helps change the conversation. 💛 #WalkForALife #SuicidePrevention #Somerset
Coming together with our Somerset community to remember loved ones and talk openly about suicide prevention meant so much. Thank you to everyone who joined or supported - every step helps change the conversation. 💛 #WalkForALife #SuicidePrevention #Somerset
Great experience at Somerset Breast Screening Service. Efficient friendly staff. When you get the invite, please take the time to attend.
July 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Great experience at Somerset Breast Screening Service. Efficient friendly staff. When you get the invite, please take the time to attend.
My first day as DPH for Somerset 10th July 2025. Travelling by bus to work.
July 15, 2025 at 10:21 PM
My first day as DPH for Somerset 10th July 2025. Travelling by bus to work.
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So much fun to host @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social. The audience turnout is amazing and indicates the appetite for Trish's insights into how we make healthcare, particularly primary healthcare, work in the UK. Today, we aren't treating the patient - we are treating the patient's digital record.
February 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
So much fun to host @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social. The audience turnout is amazing and indicates the appetite for Trish's insights into how we make healthcare, particularly primary healthcare, work in the UK. Today, we aren't treating the patient - we are treating the patient's digital record.
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Just in case someone needs to see this.
December 20, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Just in case someone needs to see this.
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This ⬆️££ is v welcome.
BUT to reach the goal of no new HIV transmissions by 2030 we also need ⬆️ ££ for local sexual health services which, in England, are paid for not by the NHS, but by the #PublicHealth Grant which has been consistently ✂️since 2015.
#WorldAIDSDay
www.gov.uk/government/n...
BUT to reach the goal of no new HIV transmissions by 2030 we also need ⬆️ ££ for local sexual health services which, in England, are paid for not by the NHS, but by the #PublicHealth Grant which has been consistently ✂️since 2015.
#WorldAIDSDay
www.gov.uk/government/n...
“I am determined this generation will be the one that ends new cases of HIV within England by 2030”, Prime Minister said ahead of World AIDS Day
New funding to bolster the government’s pledge to end all new transmissions of HIV within England by 2030 were announced today by Prime Minister Keir Starmer, at a reception in No10 to mark World AIDS...
www.gov.uk
December 1, 2024 at 2:41 PM
This ⬆️££ is v welcome.
BUT to reach the goal of no new HIV transmissions by 2030 we also need ⬆️ ££ for local sexual health services which, in England, are paid for not by the NHS, but by the #PublicHealth Grant which has been consistently ✂️since 2015.
#WorldAIDSDay
www.gov.uk/government/n...
BUT to reach the goal of no new HIV transmissions by 2030 we also need ⬆️ ££ for local sexual health services which, in England, are paid for not by the NHS, but by the #PublicHealth Grant which has been consistently ✂️since 2015.
#WorldAIDSDay
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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I’ll be giving a talk on epidemic dynamics at @lshtm.bsky.social next Monday at 5.30pm, from dengue and Zika to pandemic influenza and COVID. Free and open to all: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
The perils of prediction: how untangling transmission drivers can improve epidemic response | LSHTM
Exploring research untangling the different factors driving epidemic transmission, from behaviour to immunity
www.lshtm.ac.uk
November 18, 2024 at 7:59 PM
I’ll be giving a talk on epidemic dynamics at @lshtm.bsky.social next Monday at 5.30pm, from dengue and Zika to pandemic influenza and COVID. Free and open to all: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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Our Vice President Alice Wiseman spoke at today's Hse of Lords Food, Diet & Obesity Committee event to launch their recent report on the obesity & diet-related public health emergency being faced in the UK.
We need urgent action to give people the freedom to live healthier lives for longer.
We need urgent action to give people the freedom to live healthier lives for longer.
November 14, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Our Vice President Alice Wiseman spoke at today's Hse of Lords Food, Diet & Obesity Committee event to launch their recent report on the obesity & diet-related public health emergency being faced in the UK.
We need urgent action to give people the freedom to live healthier lives for longer.
We need urgent action to give people the freedom to live healthier lives for longer.
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Measures to prevent illness and disease, and to improve the health and wellbeing of pregnant women and babies, will not only benefit the next generation, but also their families and the wider community.🍞
www.gov.uk/government/n....
www.gov.uk/government/n....
Birth defects prevented by fortifying flour with folic acid
New legislation being introduced today will require millers and flour producers to fortify non-wholemeal wheat flour with folic acid from the end of 2026.
www.gov.uk
November 14, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Measures to prevent illness and disease, and to improve the health and wellbeing of pregnant women and babies, will not only benefit the next generation, but also their families and the wider community.🍞
www.gov.uk/government/n....
www.gov.uk/government/n....
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"kamala harris will protect your right to disagree with her" is something i haven't really heard from another surrogate and i find it genuinely compelling?
NEW: Harrison Ford endorses Kamala Harris.
This is impactful, in part because it comes from someone without a long track record of endorsing candidates.
“I’ve been voting for 64 years. Never really wanted to talk about it very much.”
(📽️Credit: CallToActivism via X)
This is impactful, in part because it comes from someone without a long track record of endorsing candidates.
“I’ve been voting for 64 years. Never really wanted to talk about it very much.”
(📽️Credit: CallToActivism via X)
November 2, 2024 at 10:15 PM
"kamala harris will protect your right to disagree with her" is something i haven't really heard from another surrogate and i find it genuinely compelling?
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#Mpox in the UK: @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social highlights so far isolated cases outside Africa not leading to onwards transmission, vital focus remains on countries most affected by #mpox outbreaks 🌍💉 #PublicHealth
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
November 1, 2024 at 11:40 AM
#Mpox in the UK: @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social highlights so far isolated cases outside Africa not leading to onwards transmission, vital focus remains on countries most affected by #mpox outbreaks 🌍💉 #PublicHealth
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
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🗣️The 2024 John Snow Society Pumphandle Lecture will be given by Soumya Swaminathan
The lecture, "#Pandemics, #Climate Change & the role of Science", takes place at LSHTM on 22 October 2024 & will also be available to watch online.
👉 bit.ly/408CJ4B
#PublicHealth #India
The lecture, "#Pandemics, #Climate Change & the role of Science", takes place at LSHTM on 22 October 2024 & will also be available to watch online.
👉 bit.ly/408CJ4B
#PublicHealth #India
October 18, 2024 at 12:15 PM
🗣️The 2024 John Snow Society Pumphandle Lecture will be given by Soumya Swaminathan
The lecture, "#Pandemics, #Climate Change & the role of Science", takes place at LSHTM on 22 October 2024 & will also be available to watch online.
👉 bit.ly/408CJ4B
#PublicHealth #India
The lecture, "#Pandemics, #Climate Change & the role of Science", takes place at LSHTM on 22 October 2024 & will also be available to watch online.
👉 bit.ly/408CJ4B
#PublicHealth #India
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🗓️Register now for this deep dive into how tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy food companies disrupt public health efforts, chaired by ADPH Vice President, Alice Wiseman ⬇️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/killer-tac...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/killer-tac...
Killer Tactics Webinar: How tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy food industries hold back public health
Join us for a deep dive into how tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy food companies disrupt public health efforts - Killer Tactics Webinar!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 11, 2024 at 10:25 AM
🗓️Register now for this deep dive into how tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy food companies disrupt public health efforts, chaired by ADPH Vice President, Alice Wiseman ⬇️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/killer-tac...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/killer-tac...
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Study warns industry-funded alcohol-reduction apps may contain #misinformation
LSHTM analysis suggests #alcohol industry-funded tools may omit important #publichealth information & could ‘nudge’ users to drink more.
👉 bit.ly/3U5gqJw
LSHTM analysis suggests #alcohol industry-funded tools may omit important #publichealth information & could ‘nudge’ users to drink more.
👉 bit.ly/3U5gqJw
October 11, 2024 at 10:39 AM
Study warns industry-funded alcohol-reduction apps may contain #misinformation
LSHTM analysis suggests #alcohol industry-funded tools may omit important #publichealth information & could ‘nudge’ users to drink more.
👉 bit.ly/3U5gqJw
LSHTM analysis suggests #alcohol industry-funded tools may omit important #publichealth information & could ‘nudge’ users to drink more.
👉 bit.ly/3U5gqJw
A great idea that people on release can carry on wherever they live #parkrun #longrunparkrun non-judgemental inclusive sport for all
HMP Magilligan: 'Prison parkrun is all about creating fewer victims'
HMP Magilligan: 'Prison parkrun is all about creating fewer victims'
Governor Gary Milling rejects any suggestion that the event is a perk which prisoners do not deserve.
www.bbc.com
October 7, 2024 at 7:56 PM
A great idea that people on release can carry on wherever they live #parkrun #longrunparkrun non-judgemental inclusive sport for all
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We are delighted to announce that Lord Bethell, @gwynnemp.bsky.social, Maddy Desforges OBE, CEO, NAVCA & @jesstud.bsky.social, Interim Chief Exec @wearenewlocal.bsky.social will be joining us at our Annual Conference next month.
October 4, 2024 at 3:17 PM
We are delighted to announce that Lord Bethell, @gwynnemp.bsky.social, Maddy Desforges OBE, CEO, NAVCA & @jesstud.bsky.social, Interim Chief Exec @wearenewlocal.bsky.social will be joining us at our Annual Conference next month.