Una Geary

Dec 6, 2024 | bmj.com | Una Geary |Martin McKee

Una Geary, public health specialty registrar1, Martin McKee, professor of European public health2 1Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, UK 2London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK The newly elected United Kingdom’s government has moved quickly to resurrect legislation, initiated by its predecessors, that is designed to tackle the epidemic of youth vaping and create a smoke-free generation, outlawing sales of all tobacco products to those born on or after 1st January 2009.1 This is...

Oct 15, 2024 | bmj.com | Una Geary |Adam Briggs

Una Geary, public health specialty registrar, Adam Briggs, senior policy fellow Health Foundation, London In August 2020, five months after the World Health Organization had declared a global pandemic, the UK government announced its decision to scrap England’s national public health agency, Public Health England.1 The announcement provoked criticism because of the inevitable organisational disruption this would cause during the pandemic response.23 In his recent review of the NHS in England,...

Jan 19, 2024 | bmj.com | Una Geary |Angela Bartley |Michael Marmot

Una Geary, public health specialty registrar1, Angela Bartley, former director of Population Health2, Michael Marmot, director3 1Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust 2East London NHS Foundation Trust 3Institute of Health Equity, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL East London NHS Foundation Trust and the UCL Institute of Health Equity have developed a “Marmot NHS Trust” approach to taking action on the underlying social causes of ill health, and advocate for other trusts to...