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IPH has today launched a new #HowWeAge photography competition to capture older adults engaging in work, lifelong learning, or volunteering - more details in the thread below 🔽

Proud to endorse a new set of materials for #PublicHealth professionals to introduce colleagues to the issues around commercial determinants of health.

Congratulations Anna Brook, Katherine Körner (she/her), @maisie333 & Mark Petticrew who developed the materials.
➡️bit.ly/4baS72G

Age & Opportunity announces grants of over €300,000 to promote physical activity among older people. Funds support diverse activities nationwide – from chair yoga to Tai Chi, table tennis to walking hockey - read more about it here: ow.ly/k1QK50RnQfT

Sport Ireland

#arts #creativity #ageing #publichealth
Our Healthier Ageing through #Arts and #Creativity webinar has kicked off 🔽
Today we're launching a range of new resources of interest to anyone involved in developing or delivering #arts and #creativity programmes for older adults

The NCCP is hosting a webinar as part of the 2024 #SunSmart campaign on ‘Sunscreen Myths and Facts’. The webinar aims to increase awareness of the steps you, your family, friends & colleagues can take to protect your skin from the sun. Visit hse.ie/sunsmart to register

Join us in Dublin 🇮🇪 on 7 May, for what will be a great event on the commercial determinants of health 💸🤝

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Delighted to have become a Fellow Trinity College Dublin today with friends/colleagues like Professor Jo-Hanna Ivers also becoming a Fellow too. Thanks Colin Doherty for the Nomination!

Well done to all the team in Tipperary University Hospital thank you so so much for raising awareness and supporting us!!! Loving the lanyards too ☘️ 😍😍😍 #WorldLiverDay TippUH-NURSING HSE Ireland HSE Health & Wellbeing

An election manifesto for the NHS — and a healthy economy via Financial Times
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Well done to all the team in Kilkenny flying the flag for liver disease awareness!! Thank you all so much!! ☘️😍 #WorldLiverDay HSE Health & Wellbeing

Day 2 of the WHO/Europe conference on Prison Health is Public Health with a particular focus on mental health.
Lots of great connections made and learning to take home and integrate into our work in this area Institute of Public Health .
#prisonhealth2024

SHAAP are delighted that the Scottish Parliament have voted in favour of the continuation of Minimum Unit Pricing and the uprating of MUP to 65p!

Our chair Alastair MacGilchrist commented, see below

Congratulations Dr. Anthony Fauci on winning the Stearne Medal.

Your commitment to evidence-based decision making and speaking truth to power had an impact far beyond the U.S.

It helped shape public health policy around the globe, and save countless lives.

Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

New report by Anne Doyle of HealthResearchBoard Alcohol: availability, affordability, related harm, and policy in Ireland drugsandalcohol.ie/40465/

The Tobacco and Vapes Bill, if passed, will prevent thousands of people being disabled or dying prematurely.

Tobacco addicts people at a young age, taking their choices away and then killing them.

The 4 UK CMOs support creating a smokefree generation.

Last week members of IPH's policy team gave evidence to the Northern Ireland Assembly Health Committee Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Health on the UK Tobacco and Vapes Bill
Find out more>>>
publichealth.ie/news/iph-gives…

Watch live as Dr. Helen McAvoy, Joanna Purdy and Ciara Reynolds give evidence to the NI Assembly Health Committee on the Westminster Tobacco and Vapes Bill niassembly.tv

The Health Minister and the Mental Health Champion for NI met today to discuss priorities around mental health issues.

Robin Swann and Siobhán O'Neill (she/her) also discussed how to address actions in the Mental Health Strategy 2021-31.

➡️More info on the strategy here: health-ni.gov.uk/publications/m…