Upcoming NCCDH webinar on intervention entry points for health promotion practice: 26th June

Our Canadian friends at the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health have asked us to circulate these details. Enjoy! The NCCDH and Health Promotion Canada (HPC) are collaborating on a series of webinars to highlight several chapters of the newly released book Health Promotion in Canada 4th edition: New Perspectives on Theory, Practice, Policy, and Research. The goal is …

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First review of EH and Housing: issues in public health

The first review of our new book Environmental Health and Housing: issues in public health has been published in Environmental Health News, 33 (5) 11. With thanks to Dave Arkle. Click here for more details and to pre-order. “The book is an easy read, but retains academic robustness. It covers a wide housing- and health-related …

Health in the private rented sector

It is good to see that this new POSTnote from the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology explores the quality of private rented housing and interventions to improve housing quality, alongside the challenges faced. What is also good is that it acknowledges the contribution of environmental health in the preparation of the briefing. For a …

Maintaining momentum and practicing what we preach

Keeping 'research active' helps ensure that we are better at our jobs in practice and in education, hopefully keeping things more interesting and engaging for our students. It also helps us to understand the pressures students too are under in terms of what we are expecting them to produce. Hopefully what they see us doing …

Seeking new insights into environmental health through research

Do you have research you would like to present at this event? There's still time to showcase what you have been involved with, either as a student or practitioner, and by presentation or poster. If you have any ideas, please click here. Otherwise we hope you will attend anyway! Research Workshop Surrey and Sussex Regional …

New year, new publication

In summer 2011 an EH and housing workshop organised by Jill Stewart prompted five British EH academics to create the UK Environmental Health Research Network (UK EHRNet). The network aims to promote a research culture amongst EH professionals, develop their research skills and offer guidance on how research can inform policy and practice. Its creation …

Northern Ireland’s Certificates of Fitness

As readers may know, legal housing standards and interventions vary across the UK. England and Wales have the Housing Health and Safety Rating System and Scotland has the Tolerable Standard. Each has its own arrangements for public health. This very interesting blog from Lindsay Shaw, Lecturer in Environmental Health, Ulster University, outlines Northern Ireland's Certificates of …