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On 14 December 2021 Dr Helen McAvoy and Dr Joanna Purdy from IPH's policy team gave evidence to the NI Assembly Committee for Communities on the Betting, Gaming, Lotteries and Amusements (Amendment) Bill.The Committee also heard evidence from Mr…
There have been many significant achievements in public health over the past 25 years, but considerable challenges lie ahead, in particular the impact of climate change on our health and on the health of the planet.As part of the Institute of Public…
Chief Executive of the Institute of Public Health Suzanne Costello has been elected to serve as President of EuroHealthNet, the European Partnership for health, equity and wellbeing. Suzanne will head the Partnership of public authorities and…
The Institute of Public Health (IPH) hosted a special event on Wednesday, 4th October to mark it's 25th anniversary. Set up prior to the signing of the Good Friday / Belfast Agreement in 1998, IPH has been shaping public health policy across the…
In August 2023 the Institute responded to the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) consultation on Northern Ireland’s ‘Bread and Flour’ regulations. The consultation followed an announcement in 2021 by the the UK government…
The UK is in line to be the first country in Europe to fortify flour in a bid to reduce the occurrence of certain birth defects. In this blog, Dr Jenny Mack, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, shares some insights on why this measure is being…
The Institute of Public Health (IPH) has published an annual report for 2022, providing an overview of work completed or commenced during the year.The following graphic summarises some of our work during 2022:
The Institute recently responded to a public consultation on Northern Ireland’s 2030 & 2040 Emissions Reduction Targets, Carbon Budgets, and the Climate Change Committee Advice Report: 'The path to a Net Zero Northern Ireland’, published by the…
IPH recently responded to a UK consultation on creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping.In October the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) in England published a command paper ‘Stopping the start: our new plan to create a…
More than 1,000 health professionals, researchers and policymakers, from across Ireland and Northern Ireland and beyond, will gather this week for an all-island public health conference on health inequalities. The 2023 Joint North South Public…