In this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Anna Pearce and Lia Demou speak to Ruth Dundas about her evaluation of the Healthy Start vouchers scheme.    Read the full report about the Healthy Start vouchers.    Find out more about Growing Up in Scotland and the Infant Feeding Survey.   Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter ..read more

To mark ‘Diversity in Health’ day during European Public Health Week, Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce have a conversation with Vittal Katikireddi about a framework for understanding and reducing ethnic inequalities in COVID-19 outcomes. You can read more about the framework in the open access paper discussed in the episode.   Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter ..read more

As part of European Public Health Week’s ‘Mental Health for All’ day, 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities hosts Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce chat to Peter Craig about a recently commenced evaluation looking at the impacts of Universal Credit on mental health. You can read more about the study in the freely available protocol. Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter ..read more

In this episode of 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities, Naomi Miall, Gillian Fergie and Anna Pearce discuss their recently published report looking at trends in health inequalities in Scotland. You can find out more on the report website. Thanks to the commissioners of this report, the Health Foundation, as well as our many expert advisors and stakeholders.   Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter ..read more

Ruth Dundas, Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce discuss the Maternal and Child Health network (MatCHNet) – including its aims, challenges, progress to date and next steps. You can visit the MatCHNet website to sign up to join the network and to find out more information, including policy briefings on welfare grants in pregnancy and early childhood, early years education and childcare, Universal Credit and welfare policies, data briefings, methods briefings, and recordings of webinars. More information on UK Prevention Research Partnership (UKPRP), the network’s funders, can be found on their web ..read more

In this 15 Minutes on Health Inequalities podcast Ruth Dundas and Anna Pearce chat to Mirjam Allik and Edit Gedeon about their recently published findings on the health of care experienced children in Scotland.   Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter. Follow CHiCS on Twitter ..read more

In this episode Paul Henery, a Research Assistant at SPHSU, talks to Linsay Gray and Michael Green about his work on social inequalities in childhood unintentional injuries. Read the open access journal article. You can also view details of related work on our website. Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter. Follow Linsay on Twitter. Follow Michael on Twitter ..read more

In this latest episode, Ruth Dundas and Alastair Leyland talk to Evangelia Demou about her paper evaluating the impact of smoke-free prisons on exposure to second hand smoke. Access the paper (for free!) Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter. Follow Ruth on Twitter. Follow Alastair on Twitter. Follow Evangelia on Twitter ..read more

Timed to coincide with European Public Health Week’s daily theme on “No health without mental health”, Alastair Leyland and Lia Demou talk to Elise Whitley about her work investigating the mental health of carers during the first COVID-19 national lockdown in the UK. Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter. Follow Alastair on Twitter. Follow Evangelia on Twitter ..read more

Timed to coincide with 2022 European Public Health Week’s daily theme on “Vaccination as key prevention strategy”, Alastair Leyland and Anna Pearce speak to Vittal Katikireddi from the SPHSU about his work examining waning of the AstraZeneca vaccine.    Read the published Lancet paper detailing this work. Visit the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit website. Follow us on Twitter. Follow Alastair on Twitter. Follow Vittal on Twitter ..read more