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February 2026
New Parent Health Information Resources published by Public Health Wales – Supporting Families Across Wales
This webinar highlighted how embedding these resources into your programmes and services and offering them to our families, help to create a consistent, trusted parenting offer across Wales. This, in turn, helps in reducing misinformation and supporting families to give their child the best start.
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2026
In this webinar we were introduced to the ‘Evidence Pie’ which is a practical tool used to support building the evidence base to inform local decision making and offers a common language for discussing research and evidence across sectors, that can be adapted to meet local needs.
2025
This webinar launches a Fairer Primary Care – Fair for All, Teg I Bawb, action plan that has been developed by reviewing the evidence, data and iterative rounds of face to face and online workshops, and extensive engagement and collaboration with patients, health professionals, senior leaders, community groups, and experts by experience across the Primary Care system in Wales.
November 2025 – What role does biodiversity play in creating healthy, sustainable communities.
This webinar explored the connection between nature and health and its place in creating healthy, sustainable communities.
October 2025 – The public health potential of housing interventions: Could Wales lead the world?
Attendees had the opportunity to learn about work ongoing in Wales relating to housing and health, participated in discussions with other attendees and shared experience.
The webinar provided an overview of the potential impact that the school food environment has on health and wellbeing of children, adults and society, describing perspectives on some of the challenges and opportunities in creating healthier school food environments.
In this webinar Marie Brousseau-Navarro (the Deputy Future Generations Commissioner) presented the findings and recommendations in the Health Chapter of the Future Generations Report 2025. The webinar also covered the urgency of the current state of health in Wales and discussed some of the solutions and good practice we need to address in public sector organisations.
July 2025 – Brain health and dementia risk reduction – How can we affect change?
There is limited public awareness of the risk factors that contribute to dementia, despite growing evidence that around 45% of cases are linked to modifiable factors such as hearing loss, smoking, inactivity, and cardiovascular health. Prevention is both possible and powerful. Targeted outreach is needed for diverse communities, while addressing stigma and fear around diagnosis. Although dementia is one of our greatest health challenges, it remains low on the public agenda—underscoring the need for urgent, equitable, and prevention-focused action across the system.
2024
December 2024 – Supporting postnatal weight management.
Supporting postnatal weight management is an important area and there are many opportunities to support women and families at this stage of life. This event focussed on postnatal health and wellbeing where we explored the importance of supporting postnatal weight management, what needs to be done to provide this support, and what the next steps for doing this may involve.
November 2024 – Public Health Wales’ International Public Health Forum.
The International Health Forum promoted the experiences of colleagues across Public Health Wales, shared their learnings from engaging in international health activities and research and provided time to discuss opportunities for the future to engage in international partnerships working and networks. This work will enable and support the implementation of Public Health Wales’ Long-Term Strategy.
This webinar was a chance for attendees to look at how WHIASU has developed as a Unit over the last 20 years. There was an update on the latest developments of the HIA Regulations from a Welsh Government representative, a first look at a HIA case studies document for public bodies with two live examples, as well as a panel discussion looking at where HIA might be in another 20 years’ time. There was also a chance for attendees to ask any HIA related questions to the panel of experts.
November 2024 – Hapus: A national conversation on mental wellbeing.
This webinar provided a brief overview of mental wellbeing and the Hapus National Conversation. It provided information about our Equality Impact Assessment, and actions that we are taking to mitigate negative impacts. We talked about the role of Hapus Supporters, invited organisations to apply and outlined the benefits of becoming a Hapus Supporter.
This webinar explored the critical role of behaviours in improving the health and wellbeing of Wales, explored what we mean by behaviour and considered the range of factors influencing behaviour using evidence-based models and frameworks.
October 2024 – Inverse Care Law in Wales: A way forward.
Health inequalities in Wales are increasing, and while the root causes often lie outside the healthcare system, there is a crucial role for primary care in addressing these disparities. By taking proactive steps, we can help to mitigate and reduce these differences, ensuring equitable healthcare for everyone. However, if we are not careful, our actions could inadvertently widen these gaps. It’s essential that we recognise the impact primary care can have and take deliberate actions to make a positive difference. This webinar explored the Inverse Care Law Programme in Wales.
September 2024 – No one left behind – The future of social connections and communities in Wales.
Social connections play a vital role in our health and wellbeing and can be a contributory factor in some people’s experience of poorer health outcomes. Changes are already happening that impact the ways we relate to each other. We live increasingly digitalised lives, our working lives are changing and changes in demographics, family composition and the way we engage with politics and our institutions mean we need to think about the challenges and opportunities ahead for our social lives, relationships, and communities. An inclusive approach to protecting and promoting social connections in a rapidly changing world is important for our future health and wellbeing.
September 2024 – Developing climate surveillance for Wales: From data to action.
This event showcased the latest perspectives from Public Health Wales and Welsh Government, emphasising how public health surveillance is essential to adapting to and mitigating climate-related health risks.
July 2024 – Wellness in work: Supporting health and wellbeing at work.
Chaired by Mary-Ann McKibben, Consultant-lead for Healthy Working Wales (Public Health Wales), this webinar heard from academics who have undertaken research and evaluation to understand what works in relation to workplace health approaches.
June 2024 – Health inclusion: Why it matters?
This webinar highlighted how inclusive practices and health inclusion services can significantly improve health and care professionals’ outcomes, enhance communication, and reduce inequalities.
We are facing challenging times in Wales, with our healthcare services, wider public sector, and third sector under unprecedented strain. This makes it more important than ever, but also harder than ever, to balance managing the crises of today with preventing the crises of the future. There are tools and resources that can help us do this. If you want to learn about them, please join us on this webinar.
This webinar brought together current evidence on the health impacts of climate change across Wales including recent reports from Public Health Wales. Climate change is going to have a significant impact on health and wellbeing in Wales – increasingly frequent extreme weather events have occurred in Wales in recent years and impacted infrastructure, services and population physical and mental wellbeing. We need robust evidence to help the health sector to adapt to these changes.
May 2024 – Becoming a Marmot region: Sharing learning.
This webinar explored the approach taken by Aneurin Bevan Gwent Public Health Team and Coventry Council to becoming Marmot regions and highlighted learning and recommendations.
This webinar explored the links between gender and the wider determinants of health and discussed the role of gender-inclusive policies in shaping equitable economies and health systems. It was an opportunity to look at the prevailing gender inequalities which impact health beyond health services.
This webinar gave an overview of the Wider Determinants of Health Unit’s work in relation to education as a determinant of health and focussed on using a participatory systems mapping approach to understanding the complex pathways which influence educational achievement outcomes in Wales. The webinar described the approach, gave an overview of the map and how we have used it and discussed the learning from using this approach as a tool for working with others to understanding and managing complex public health issues.
As a professional working in primary and community care, are you concerned about the impact of your work on climate change, or equally the impact of climate change on your work? If so, join the Greener Primary Care Wales Framework and Award Scheme relaunch event to find out the simple, practical changes you can make to your day-to-day practice which will improve your environmental sustainability.
January 2024 – Social Value Masterclass: Measuring the value of public health.
This Masterclass is designed to enhance understanding of the broader holistic value of public health through exploring the concept of Social Value.
This webinar provided an update from Public Health Wales on the epidemiology and harms of vaping in children and adults and the measures currently in place to tackle the problem particularly with young people
2023
December 2023 – Our global health offer: Public Health Wales’ International Health strategy refresh.
The webinar introduced Public Health Wales’ refreshed International Health Strategy, what it is and why it is important.
November 2023 – Protecting health and wellbeing in the climate crisis.
This conference supported people who work with Public Service Boards (PSBs) or Public Bodies who are planning or starting their local climate risk assessments. The conference included an introduction to the guidance on local climate risk assessments being produced by Natural Resources Wales for PSBs. Attendees heard key insights from the recent Health Impact Assessment by Public Health Wales on people and communities in Wales’ vulnerability to climate change. There was an opportunity to share learning and insights from existing local climate adaptation work in Wales.
Cymru Can is the new seven-year strategy from the Office of the Future Generations Commissioner for Wales, Derek Walker.
October 2023 – Children and the cost of living crisis in Wales.
This webinar explored current policy, research and practice in Wales which aims to support children and their families through the cost of living crisis.
The webinar also highlighted free training opportunities available on climate change to help you understand what climate change means to your role, and how to take action.
The webinar described the evidence, strategic context and the nine step approach to whole systems approaches in Wales. The webinar discussed why working in this way is different from more traditional partnership working.
August 2023 – The role of design in public health.
This webinar is an introduction to the Design Council who holds more than 20 years’ experience developing frameworks that support organisations embed design practice and new ways of working.
August 2023 – This is why play is so important.
‘This is why play is so important’ captures why play is vital to children’s development, mental health, wellbeing, and happiness. From street play to playgrounds, living rooms to back gardens, the film captures play in all its different guises and offers a unique insight into what play means to children of all ages.
This webinar will discuss the HIA findings of the CPTTP for Wales with a focus on health, well-being and equity impacts.
July 2023 – Detection and prevention of illicit trade in drugs, alcohol and tobacco in Wales.
This webinar summarised the international systems the UK and Wales participated in to tackle illicit alcohol, tobacco, and drugs before Brexit. The panel explored how these have changed post-Brexit and what potential impact that may have on health and well-being in Wales.
June 2023 – Addressing health inequities in Wales: The Welsh Health Equity Solutions Platform.
The webinar gave an overview of future planned activities and provided an opportunity for you to find out how you can become involved in co-producing solutions, developing case studies and contribute to learning on solutions based action to reduce health inequities.
This webinar explored the implementation of the Duty in practice, provided additional guidance on systems leadership, using data effectively, engaging meaningfully and knowing how organisations have made a difference. The webinar explained how inequalities of outcome are linked to socio-economic disadvantage, with a strong focus on health.
May 2023 – Influencing the health gap: Multi-country perspectives.
This webinar presented experiences and insights on the Health Equity Status Report initiative (HESRi) decomposition analyses, with a multi-country discussion on methods and findings (Wales, Italy and Slovenia). It is a solutions-focused session, looking at how the application of the innovative Decomposition analysis methodology has generated an insight into the drivers of health inequities in Wales and other regions.
May 2023 – Enhancing partnership working in public services boards.
Collaborating with diverse partners is essential for Public Health leads and practitioners to address the wider determinants of health. Within the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, Public Services Boards (PSB) are a key institution for partnership working in Wales. Yet studies consistently show that strategic partnerships fail to reach agreement on mutually beneficial joint action.
April 2023 – Workforce health in Wales.
Pandemics, recessions, rising levels of ill health and increasing economic inactivity are just some of the challenges facing employers and the workforce in Wales. Whilst making prominent headlines, what does all this mean for workforce health in Wales? What does the latest research tell us? How can we support employees to access fair work and create healthy, thriving workplaces?
April 2023 – Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales.
Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales is the Welsh Government’s long term strategy to prevent and reduce obesity. The aim of the plan is to deliver healthy settings and environments to allow people of all ages to make healthy choices.
March 2023 – Sustainable food places in Wales.
Sustainable Food Places is one of the UK’s fastest-growing social movements. Its network brings together pioneering food partnerships from towns, cities, boroughs, districts and counties across the UK that are driving innovation and best practice on all aspects of healthy and sustainable food. Food Sense Wales is Sustainable Food Place’s national partner in Wales and has an ambition to see a food partnership in every local authority in Wales, creating a network that would form the foundation for developing the vision, infrastructure and action needed to make Wales’ food system fit for Future Generations.
March 2023 – Why is equality better for everyone?
In this webinar Professor Richard Wilkinson, co-author of The Spirit Level and The Inner Level gave his perspective on why material inequalities make people more antisocial, make status and class divisions more powerful, increase stress, damage physical and mental health and are a barrier to sustainability.
February 2023 – Planning for a healthy future: Working together to create healthier communities.
Speakers at the event gave their perspectives on how planning and health collaboration can contribute to addressing climate change; health impact assessments; planning contributions to healthcare provision; and gave examples of how public health can engage with the planning system.
February 2023 – Community resilience in Wales.
At this webinar we heard from Nick Selwyn and Euros Lake from Audit Wales.
Lucia Homolova and Charlotte Grey from Public Health Wales shared findings from a study exploring community-led action during the pandemic in Wales.
We also heard from Fred Weston and Catrin Cribb from Monmouthshire County Council who shared how the team enabled community action during the pandemic to respond to shopping and prescription needs.
January 2023 – Communities4Change (C4C) Wales.
This webinar gave an overview of the C4C Wales approach, how the work of CTMHHP has evolved since participating in the C4C Wales pilot and key learning points from the evaluation.
January 2023 – Taking action on the cost of living crisis in Wales.
The current cost of living crisis is not just a temporary economic squeeze, it is a long-term public health issue affecting the whole population. The impact on health and well-being in Wales has the potential to put it on the same scale as the COVID-19 pandemic, which had already exacerbated existing inequalities in Wales. The cost of living crisis is having, and will continue to have, wide-ranging and long-term impacts on health inequalities in Wales.
2022
November 2022 – Masterclass – International trade and health.
The masterclass included presentations and an interactive question and answer discussion looking at the Public Health impacts of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) in Wales, and who and how people will be potentially affected.
November 2022 – Systems thinking and public health: an introduction.
September 2022 – Food security in Wales.
This webinar provided a background to the current Welsh and UK legislative and policy context in relation to food security and the impact that food security has on the health and wellbeing of the population. The webinar also shared how local food partnerships are mobilising community food leaders and advocating for better access to affordable, healthy and sustainable food.
September 2022 – Protecting the mental well being of our future generations.
Children and young people’s mental wellbeing is a priority for many organisations in Wales. This webinar will help you find out what we know so far about the impact of COVID- 19 and the “Whole School Approach” programme that schools in Wales are implementing to promote emotional and mental wellbeing.
July 2022 – The COVID-19 pandemic in Wales: Reproductions of vulnerability.
This webinar traces how particular understandings of the concept have informed the pandemic responses from healthcare, the Welsh and local governments, and community organisations in Wales with focus on the Swansea area. Quotations from pre-pandemic and pandemic policies as well as from interviews serve to illustrate how vulnerability has been understood and acted upon differently. These insights lead to suggest how the pandemic has had such inequitable effects on the population of Wales.
The nature of work affects us all, and can either be part of the solution for a healthier more equal Wales or can contribute to psychological stress, ill health and early death. In this webinar you will hear experts from a panel discuss what local and regional agencies can do to influence fair work to support health, equity, good business and the wider economy.
This webinar led by the Primary Care Division in Public Health Wales provided a background to the current Welsh legislative and policy context in relation to decarbonisation and the relationship between climate change and healthcare.
In this webinar Ashley Gould from the Behavioural Science Unit, Public Health Wales will unpack the key headline influences of decisions and behaviours, and why a better understanding of these can make for more effective interventions, more impactful polices, more equitable services and communications with greater reach and response.
There is an opportunity for Wales to embed the One Health approach, integrating multiple disciplines across the system and bringing together partners from the human, animal and environmental sectors to work on issues that intersect these domains, including food security and nutrition, climate change and threats from infectious diseases. This webinar provided an overview of the One Health approach.
March 2022 – Creating healthy places and spaces.
This webinar from the Welsh Health Impact Assessment Unit helped participants to understand the contribution that planning and placemaking can make to address some of the major health challenges facing communities.
March 2022 – Creating healthy places and spaces: a collaborative approach.
This event followed the publication of the report – “Maximising health and well-being opportunities for spatial planning in the COVID-19 pandemic recovery” which identified how collaboration between in spatial planning and health is vital in order to maximise the health and well-being opportunities in the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. The event presented the findings of this report.
2021
November 2021 – How might new trade agreements affect public health in Wales?
This webinar explored what trade agreements are and why they have important potential consequences for health and well-being in Wales.
November 2021 – Climate change, the Welsh perspective.
October 2021 – Housing health and wellbeing.
September 2021 – The importance of social prescribing.
September 2021 – COVID-19: Wider impacts on our children and young people and our families.
August 2021 – Basic income, health, and Wales.
August 2021 – Systems series: Why use a systems approach?
July 2021 – Good work, good health: Securing our future.
This virtual conference held on the 7 July 2021 aimed to share knowledge and galvanise action to increase access to good, fair work to improve health and health equity, with a focus on young people, in Wales.
March 2021 – Employee wellbeing in the public sector: 12 months in to the pandemic and beyond.
In this webinar Dr Adrian Neal, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Head of Employee Wellbeing at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, discusses his experiences in Wales and how we can support staff and each other throughout the pandemic.
January 2021 – Green Recovery Delivery Partnership: Priorities for action.
In this webinar Dr Sarah Williams from Natural Resources Wales outlines the ‘Green Recovery: Priorities for Action’ report, highlighting practical and prioritised actions that will inform Wales’ sustainable pathway out of the coronavirus pandemic, including: nature based solutions; housing; and skills, training and apprenticeships.
2020
December 2020 – The unequal Pandemic: COVID-19 and health inequalities.
In this webinar Clare Bambra, Professor of Public Health, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, examines the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for health inequalities. The historical and contemporary evidence of inequalities in pandemics is outlined and the likely unequal health impacts of the economic crisis are explored, and the longer term public health policy responses needed to ensure that the COVID-19 pandemic does not increase health inequalities for future generations is reflected upon.
November 2020 – COVID-19 and BAME communities: the Welsh Government response.
In this webinar Dr Heather Payne, Senior Medical Officer, Maternal and Child Health, Welsh Government, describes the work of the First Minister’s Advisory Group on health inequalities due to COVID-19 in Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities and the Welsh Government response.
October 2020 – COVID-19 and behavioural science.
In this webinar Jonathan West, Head of Behaviour Change and Public Information, Public Health Wales discusses the application of behavioural science to current preventative activity in Wales and, using an example of young people and social distancing, describes a process which intervention developers, from policy to communications, can use to increase their impact on the Covid-safe behaviours of the public.
September 2020 – COVID-19 International Horizon Scanning and Learning.
In this webinar World Health Organization Collaboration Centre team members give an overview of reports produced by the centre which focus on drawing together COVID-19 international evidence to better understand and explore solutions to address the on-going and emerging health, wellbeing, social and economic impacts of the outbreak.
In this webinar Liz Green, Programme Director for Public Health Wales Health Impact Assessment Support Unit, WHO Collaborating Centre on Investment for Health and Wellbeing and Laura Morgan, Public Health Practitioner, discuss the findings from the recently published ‘A Health Impact Assessment of the Staying at Home and Social Distancing Policy in Wales in response to the COVID-19 pandemic’.
July 2020 – COVID-19 in a nutshell.
In this webinar Dr Chris Williams, Consultant Epidemiologist with Public Health Wales, gives an overview of COVID-19 for a non-medical audience.