To mark World Health Day, @glasgowfpp.bsky.social's Riikka Gonzalez wrote a blog for Eating Better about creating 'Full of Beans', a city-wide bean-based campaign in Glasgow. A great example of successful partnership working! eating-better.org/news-and-rep...
Illustration showing 5 pillars of Community Wealth Building
📣 New guest blog!
Dr Jayne Galinsky talks about GCPH & @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social's new CoWBELLS project: Community Wealth Building Evaluation: Learning Lessons from Scotland
📍www.gcph.co.uk/latest/news-blogs/1316-a...
Cover on sample CommonHealth Assets CLO project summary
📣 New CommonHealth Assets outputs
We are delighted to share individual summaries from the fantastic community organisations we and @yunuscentregcu.bsky.social worked with to demonstrate the importance of local community organisations to health and wellbeing.
Link: www.gcph.co.uk/our-work/25-...
Last year, we worked with ScotCen to include 11 questions about health inequalities & prevention in the annual Scottish Social Attitudes survey. Crucially: 94% of the population thinks it’s important for the Scottish Government to reduce the health gap between rich & poor people.
Sick to death: Why poverty remains at the centre of Scotland's public health divide www.holyrood.com/inside-polit...
📣 New Concept Explainer!
Our new concept explainer looks at whole-system approaches and why they matter 🔽
www.gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...
Images from Glasgow City Food Plan annual event
📣 Just published!
Our March newsletter highlights our work in the first few months of 2026, including our new publication on problem gambling and the Glasgow City Food Plan annual report and networking event.
We also introduce our strengthened commitment to anti‑racism.
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Did you know that cryptocurrency based gambling platforms represent an emerging and under-regulated domain of
concern?
Did you know that social media influencer culture has become an increasingly prominent context within which gambling is framed and interpreted?
Did you know that social media has become a central channel for gambling promotion?
Did you know that gambling-like features within video games have emerged as one of the most robustly evidenced risk
factors for later problem gambling?
Did you know that trauma, including adverse childhood experiences and adult life stressors, is repeatedly linked to gambling vulnerability?
Did you know that problem gambling among young men often emerges during adolescence and becomes established by early adulthood?
📣New blog!
Former professional footballer John Hartson and his wife Sarah Hartson reflect on our new report 'Navigating an addictive and toxic landscape' and share their story, showing how gambling harms impact not just individuals, but whole families.
www.gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...
John Hartson, Chris Harkins and Sarah Hartson.
Flyer for the event 'Navigating an addictive and toxic landscape: contemporary influences on problem gambling among young men'.
Please join us on Wed 18 March for an event bringing together research, lived experience and policy insight to explore the public health implications of an increasingly addictive and toxic digital & commercial landscape for young men. With John & Sarah Hartson. www.gcph.co.uk/latest/event...
Our new publication 'Navigating an addictive and toxic landscape: A rapid review of evidence concerning contemporary influences on problem gambling among young men' has identified 7 key themes, which we will share this week and next.
You can read the full review here: www.gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...
New blog by Chris Harkins: 'The only bet I ever made: a reflection on gambling, role models, and young men'.
A thoughtful read on how early influences shape behaviour, and why supportive environments matter.
👉 Read more: www.gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...
Report cover
📣 New Report!
'Navigating an addictive and toxic landscape'
GCPH's Chris Harkins has produced a rapid review of evidence concerning contemporary influences on problem gambling among young men
▶️ www.gcph.co.uk/latest/publi...
We're looking for submissions for a special issue of our journal, Public Health, on AI and health.
Research should focus on not only how AI can treat or manage ill health, but how it can prevent it.
Find out more and submit your paper by 31 May 2026: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
📣 New Blog!
In this guest blog, 'Reclaiming our streets: why Glasgow needs a new approach to public advertising', Étienne Tenn Salle, reflects on his recent research on the issue of public advertising and its influence on health and social justice 🔽
www.gcph.co.uk/latest/news-...
New @sgsss.bsky.social funded #PhD opportunity to undertake an #ethnography at #galgael in Glasgow with @giopicker.bsky.social and myself. This is a fully funded #Scholarship / #Studentship, which includes a stipend, fees and research expenses. Closes 24th March. www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...
📣 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.
A bus on a road, with houses in the background. Text over the top shows 'Published: Transport Poverty Policy Review'. A blue banner at the bottom shows the text 'Report' and the PHS logo next to it.
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
1 - In Scotland, the Equality Act 2010 protects individuals from discrimination (direct and indirect), harassment, and victimisation based on specific traits known as protected characteristics. These legal protections aim to ensure fairness, dignity, and equal access to opportunities in areas such as employment, education, healthcare, and public services.
2- The nine protected characteristics were chosen based on strong evidence that individuals with these traits often face systemic discrimination, exclusion, or disadvantage. The law recognises that these groups may be vulnerable to unfair treatment and seeks to promote equality by making discrimination against them unlawful.
3- The characteristics protected under the Act include age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. Examples of discrimination against these groups could look like an employee being forced to wear a certain uniform that goes against what is permissible in their religion without adjustments, or a pregnant employee being dismissed at work after announcing pregnancy, if the employer doesn’t want to pay for maternity leave.
4 – Discrimination can look different depending on the context, people involved and their identity. However, it can be characterised as excluding someone from opportunities or benefits, making it more difficult for someone to take part in activities, causing someone emotional distress, causing someone financial loss and treating someone unfavourably. It's important to note that even without malicious intent, you can still cause discrimination. All workplaces and public services should have clear avenues for support for individuals who have been discriminated against.
📣 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.
A woman stands beside a swing set in an outdoor playground, watching a young girl swing forward with a smile. The playground is surrounded by grass and apartment buildings in the background. Overlaid text reads, “Open SPACES are the prescription for a healthier childhood."
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-...
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Cover of the Year 4 Glasgow City Food Plan annual report, with the GCFP logo at the centre, and a selection of growing vegetables in the foreground and top corners (including carrots, tomatoes, peas, salads, etc.).
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...
