📣 New blog - Hope Not Hate: G15’s work to foster community cohesion amidst a time of division Linking with our new anti-racism strategy, this blog shares the success of G15TP's campaigns, offering inspiration to other local communities 👏 www.gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...

Poverty is deepening. 🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning. People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people. This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.

We've just published a Transport Poverty Policy Review – this looks at 12 national transport policies to assess whether they address affordability, accessibility and safety, and whether they can reduce transport poverty at scale. Read the full review 🔽 https://ow.ly/aIn850XZYYu

📣 New Concept Explainer! In this explainer we describe how, in the 2010 Equality Act, nine Protected Characteristics were designated, based on strong evidence that individuals with these traits often face systemic discrimination, exclusion, or disadvantage.

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

📣 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-... @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social

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...

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...

📣 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 enewsletters.tictocfamily.com/t/r-e-tkikij...

📣 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.🔽

📣 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-...

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...

This is an incredible resource of interest to historians, public heath folk, Glasgow nerds and many many more!

📣 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...

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

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-...

📣 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 🔽 @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social

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!

▶️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?...

📣 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. 🔽

▶️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...

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!

📣 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-...

📣 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. 🔽

📣 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-...

📣 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-...

Some key facts from our new Glasgow City Ethnicity Profile, published today gcph.co.uk/latest/publi... #HDRCGlasgow @glasgowcc.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social

📣 Our new Glasgow City Ethnicity Profile is published today 🔽 gcph.co.uk/latest/publi... #HDRCGlasgow, @glasgowcc.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social

📣 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...

📣 New blog! Lucien from @crer-scotland.bsky.social offers tangible actions we can take as public health professionals and policy-makers to combat racialised health inequalities for Black, and other, racially minoritised communities. gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...

📣New blog! Mohasin Ahmed's second blog in our #BHM25 series explores public health issues and inequalities faced by Black communities in Scotland today, and what can be done to close the gap. Read more: www.gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...

If you want to learn more about poverty in Glasgow, check out ‘Poverty and wealth’ in our Understanding Glasgow website #ChallengePoverty #CPW25 www.understandingglasgow.com/glasgow-indi...

On #WorldHomelessDay, check out our new Network Briefing, packed full of reports, research, opportunities - plus latest updates to the programme for the annual homelessness conference on Oct 27 & 28: us3.campaign-archive.com?u=01130236da...

Warm homes are a basic necessity, and yet over a third of households in Scotland are in fuel poverty. #ChallengePoverty #CPW25

The Power of communities is one of 6 comics produced by CommonHealth Assets' Lived Experience Panel – another example of best practice when it comes to investing in communities. #CPW25 Read more: www.gcph.co.uk/our-work/25-...

A great example of community investment: the Community Guiders Training model, co-produced with community orgs across Dundee to drive anti-poverty work in communities. #ChallengePoverty #CPW25 Learn more about it in our recent webinar: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK6D...

Poverty and disadvantage often intersect with ethnicity, shaping stark inequalities in health outcomes for racialised minority communities. Effectively #ChallengingPoverty demands a better investment in communities (Day 4 #CPW25).

New Concept Explainer! For #ChallengePoverty week, we look at poverty as a public health emergency. People in poverty face higher risks of disease, disability, and premature death, simply because of where they live and what they earn. #CPW25 Download it here: www.gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...

A better investment in life's essentials (Day 3 #CPW25) is necessary to effectively tackle poverty. This is why the work of the @glasgowfpp.bsky.social & the Glasgow City Food Plan towards a fairer, healthier and more sustainable food system is so important. Read more www.gcph.co.uk/our-work/112...

Removing barriers faced by some communities in accessing employment is crucial to help tackle poverty. Racialised minorities are overrepresented in low-pay sectors and underrepresented in the public sector, as seen in this CRER report: static1.squarespace.com/static/615c1... #CPW25

Day 2 of #CPW25, and today’s theme focusses on the importance of better jobs, pay, hours and conditions in order to tackle poverty. Did you know that the majority of adults and children living in poverty in Scotland live in a working household? www.understandingglasgow.com/glasgow-indi...

An inadequate Social Security, especially in situations like the cost-of-living crisis, can have a damaging impact on the lives, health, and wellbeing of society's most vulnerable people, as seen is this report #CPW25 : www.gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...

For day 1 of Challenge Poverty Week (theme: Social Security), we re-share this important report that demonstrates the consequences of policies that do not protect the most vulnerable from the potential harms of the cost-of-living crisis. #CPW25 www.gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...

Important in public health history is @uofgshw.bsky.social's James McCune Smith, the first African American to obtain a medical degree. He had a long career as a respected medical doctor, writer, civil rights advocate & welfare campaigner for patients at Glasgow's infamous Lock hospital #BHM25

👀If you missed the webinar, have a look at this recording of 'NHSGGC Healthy Weight Support Across the Life Course', which shares what is available, how to refer or signpost to this support & the difference that these supports make. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iStc...

A better welfare system is possible - one that treats people with dignity, compassion, and care 🤝 In our latest online listening with @demos-uk.bsky.social, we continue to see people's experience of the welfare system as inaccessible, inflexible, and inhumane. 1/2

New blog! #BlackHistoryMonth 2025: what can be learned from Glasgow’s 850th anniversary? #BMH25 coincides with Glasgow’s 850th anniversary & invites reflection on the city’s complex history & the public health lessons we can learn from it. 🔽 gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...

📣We are pleased to share, as part of GCPH's #cashfirst work, some new learning/training events on: 🥘Food insecurity and people seeking asylum: Understanding the barriers to accessing food 📅8th & 22nd October in Govan (& online in November) Sign up at: shorturl.at/EyXh4

📣New Concept Explainer! (In light of tomorrow's RCA Trust Gambling Harms Summit) Problem gambling is increasingly recognised as a structural, societal issue & deprived communities have heightened vulnerability to gambling-related social harm. Link: gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...

✨For this week's Doors Open Festival see our specially curated audio tour with @gbptrust.bsky.social & G15 Youth Project! Learn about Glasgow's health history & explore the innovative & imaginative solutions that shaped wellbeing in the city over time 🔽 www.doorsopendays.org.uk/regions/glas...