With the Scottish election a week away, we looked at how preventative each party's policies might be. Spoiler: some messaging was better than others. View our analysis here: scothealthequity.org/the-scottish...

Our March edition of Prevention Watch is out: PHS’ new 10-Year Strategy & transport poverty review; Parenting Across Scotland’s report on access to hobbies for young people; work on young adult men and prevention; Scotland’s new Alcohol & Drug strategy. scothealthequity.org/prevention-w...

Our colleagues @scothealtheq.bsky.social​ funded questions in the latest Scottish Social Attitudes Survey asking how people in Scotland understand health inequalities and what should be done to address them. In this new blog, Allison Catalano shares some of the key results⬇️ https://bit.ly/4sHmwij

Myself and @hlrandolph.bsky.social have been working on a series of pieces exploring local-level employability and data since last summer, and our first piece came out earlier this week explaining employability programmes in Scotland - check it out:

We have a new article out today which lays out what we do and don’t know about No One Left Behind, Scotland’s strategic framework and funding stream for employability. scothealthequity.org/employabilit...

Our October edition of Prevention Watch is out today. This month we look at budget process reforms, developments in housing policy, an evaluation of the Planet Youth pilot for Scotland, and a talk from the Auditor General at our annual report launch. Read more here:

Join us for our forthcoming webinar on Tuesday August 19th, looking at the intersection between inequalities and pollutant exposure in Scotland. Featuring contributions from @gjallan.bsky.social and Justine Holmes (@shareaction.bsky.social). Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/air-pollut...

SHERU will be releasing its next annual report at the Fraser of Allander conference on September 18-19 in Glasgow. Sign up has gone live today! Come along to hear about the work of SHERU and our colleagues in the Fraser of Allander Institute. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

I have a new report out today looking at air quality in Scotland. Check out the thread here:

New webinar: International Models of Primary Prevention: Lessons for Scotland Join us to hear how Ireland and Iceland successfully used policy & data to reduce suicides + drug and alcohol misuse, & to hear what Scotland can learn from these models. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/internatio...

A recording of our first webinar is now up: https://buff.ly/40hLach Join Unit members @allicatalano.bsky.social, @fionamchardy.bsky.social and David Jack discuss our most recent outputs, followed by a Q&A hosted [email protected] and Emma Congreve.

On Tuesday January 14th, we will be presenting an overview of outputs since our launch in September. https://buff.ly/3OXuamp

"...people in deprived areas had higher rates of unpaid #care provision and were more likely to spend 35 hours per week or more providing unpaid care" Just one of the inequalities in this guest blog from @allicatalano.bsky.social of @scothealtheq.bsky.social www.povertyalliance.org/guest-blog-w...