Public Health Matters

To get a flavour of what's to come at this year's North South Joint Public Health Conference, we spoke to one of the keynote speakers, Dr Austin O'Carroll, about Making Sense of Street Chaos. This year the conference theme is the ' Health-Wealth Divide: Leaving No One Behind' and in this episode (recorded on 13 November) we discuss everything from the recent cluster of heroin o...

Public Health Matters is back! Ahead of the North South Joint Public Health Conference on 29 November we spoke to one of the keynote speakers, Dr Austin O'Carroll, about Making Sense of Street Chaos. This teaser gives a flavour of what is to come in the full episode dropping next week and the Health-Wealth Divide conference later this month. For more information about this free, online, one-da...

In Ep2 of Series 2 in our #PublicHealthMatters podcast series, Professor John Barry, Professor of Green Political Economy at Queens University Belfast, discusses the relationship between health, the economy and climate change. In this episode, Prof Barry shares some insights in advance of his keynote presentation at the Healthy Planet, Healthy People conference on 30 November.  The all-island...

In Ep1 of Series 2 in our #PublicHealthMatters podcast series, Professor Pat Goodman from the Technological University in Dublin, an expert in environmental and medical physics, discusses the roll out of new solid fuel regulations in Ireland and how they fit into the bigger picture of air pollution, climate change and our health. The new solid fuel regulations restrict the commercial sale of smoky...

In Ep5 of our #PublicHealthMatters podcast, Dr Eric Carlin shares some personal insights into what lessons can be learnt from the Scottish experience of introducing Minimum Unit Pricing or MUP for alcohol. Dr Carlin was Director of Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems when Scotland became the first country to roll out MUP and today works as a consultant Public Health Expert in Alcohol Polici...

The Institute of Public Health has launched a new podcast highlighting key public health issues across Ireland and Northern Ireland. The Public Health Matters Podcast speaks to experts about the big public health issues of the day and what lessons we can learn from past challenges. This is a teaser for Episode 5, where Dr Eric Carlin shares some personal insights into what lessons can be learnt fr...

In Ep4 of our #PublicHealthMatters podcast, we speak to Dr Norah Campbell, Associate Professor in Marketing at Trinity Business School about how marketing and advertising challenges public health and influences what we consume. Dr Campbell's research interest is in food marketing and in this wide-ranging discussion we touch on how sophisticated food marketing feeds into obesity, the snack industry...

The Institute of Public Health has launched a new podcast highlighting key public health issues across Ireland and Northern Ireland. The Public Health Matters Podcast speaks to experts about the big public health issues of the day and what lessons we can learn from past challenges. This is a teaser for Episode 4 , where we speak to Dr Norah Campbell, Associate Professor in Marketing at Trinity Bus...

In Ep3 of our #PublicHealthMatters podcast, we speak to Professor Luke Clancy of the Tobacco Free Research Institute about the bold move by Ireland to introduce the world’s first smoking ban in 2004. A doctor, academic and long-time advocate for tougher tobacco control measures, Professor Clancy was a key player in the 1980s smoky coal ban in Dublin and in the 2004 Workplace Smoking Ban, which we...

The Institute of Public Health has launched a new podcast highlighting key public health issues across Ireland and Northern Ireland. The Public Health Matters Podcast speaks to experts about the big public health issues of the day and what lessons we can learn from past challenges. This is a teaser for Episode 3 , where we speak to Professor Luke Clancy of the Tobacco Free Research Institute about...

In Ep 2 of our #PublicHealthMatters podcast we speak to Northern Ireland’s Mental Health Champion, Professor Siobhan O’Neill, about the high rate of mental health issues in Northern Ireland, the mental health legacy of The Troubles, and some of the factors at play.  Siobhan is Professor of Mental Health Sciences at Ulster University and a leading expert on mental health and suicide prevention...

The Institute of Public Health has launched a new podcast highlighting key public health issues across Ireland and Northern Ireland. The Public Health Matters Podcast speaks to experts about the big public health issues of the day and what lessons we can learn from past challenges. In Episode 2 , we speak to Northern Ireland’s Mental Health Champion, Professor Siobhan O’Neill , to discuss the lega...

In the first series of the Public Health Matters podcast we look at what lessons we can learn from public health. In this, the first episode, we speak to Sir Michael Marmot, a Professor of Epidemiology at University College London , known across the globe for his ground-breaking work on the health gaps that exist between rich and poor.  Professor Marmot has led research groups in health inequ...

The Institute of Public Health has launched a new podcast highlighting key public health issues across Ireland and Northern Ireland. The Public Health Matters Podcast speaks to experts about the big public health issues of the day and what lessons we can learn from past challenges. So stay tuned to stay informed about Public Health Matters and what matters now. The Public Health Matters Podcast is...