The Latest Breaking News from Public Health

Research suggests that emulsifiers found in processed foods can disrupt gut bacteria and increase inflammation, causing CVD

Secondhand smoke may be an important but overlooked source of chronic lead exposure in kids and adolescents. That is the key finding of our recent study, published in the journal BMC Public Health.

Lori Lightfoot’s class will include a mock press conference and a simulated community meeting. She’ll discuss the dangers of politicizing a pandemic and how to interact with the media, drawing on lessons learned amid COVID-19.

The UK’s public health body will increase Covid testing and surveillance to ease pressure on the NHS this winter, amid fears of a surge in infections.

Aging roads crack under pressure. Drainage systems buckle under heavy storms. Polluted waterways threaten public health. Across the U.S., infrastructure struggles to keep up with climate change and rapid urban expansion. Without sustainable solutions, these challenges will only grow.

Pandemics. Quarantine. Vaccines. These concepts have been at the forefront of our minds for over three years now. Having lived through the height of the COVID pandemic, it would be easy for us to imagine we have just experienced something unique in human history.

The electricity market, an essential service for upholding human rights, is in fact harming the health of New Zealanders and will cost the public health system, writes Dr Kimberley O’Sullivan

Concern over public health fuelled by studies linking UPF to raised blood pressure, heart attacks and strokes

As part of the BBMP’s public health strategy, the civic body is working on setting up a Metropolitan Surveillance Unit (MSU) on the premises of the Public Health Institute (PHI). The unit that will be fully funded by the Centre will help the civic body in putting in  place a…