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October 2020
VHS Members Meet Up: Recovery and Renewal
We invite VHS members to a networking discussion to explore your current preoccupations about the continuing pandemic and your hopes, fears and plans for the future. VHS is contributing to a number of Scottish Government and Public Health Scotland COVID-19 working groups now focused on mobilisation, recovery and renewal in relation to Scotland’s health and wellbeing. This discussion will help us build strong evidence and ideas from the third sector to help influence this policy making, as well as giving…
Challenge Poverty Week: Food Insecurity, Poverty and Health
Join VHS and the Poverty Alliance for a joint event taking place as part of challenge poverty week events. We invite you to discuss and share how poverty, access to food and the insecurity around this has impacted health in Scotland. What has been the response of your organisation? How has this impacted on those you work with? What can we do next? Chaired by Claire Stevens, Chief Executive of Voluntary Health Scotland with input from Neil Cowan, Policy Officer…
CPG on Health Inequalities: October Meeting & AGM
Join us for the Health Inequalities CPG October meeting and AGM on the 13th October online meeting via Zoom. The meeting will be chaired by Group Co-Convenor Anas Sarwar MSP. More details of the speakers to follow shortly. Register to attend here. If you have any questions about the CPG, please contact Lauren Blair
Ageing Well: 5th Talk with the Open University
Join VHS and the Open University for the fifth in a series of joint online events exploring ageing, health and wellbeing. This part of Jitka Vseteckova’s Ageing Well lecture series and will explore what we need to consider around physical activity and movement in this talk titled: Move it and breathe. Led by Dr Jitka Všetečková who currently works at the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, The Open University. Jitka undertakes research in Public Health with special interest…
November 2020
VHS Annual Conference & AGM 2020
Join us at our Annual Conference on Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5th November. #WeArePublicHealth: Building Forward for Health and Wellbeing Book your place here! Our 2020 Annual Conference will take place via Zoom over 2 days with 4 varied sessions to allow flexible access for joining us. This event is over 2 days and we would like to strongly encourage you to book for both days to get the full conference experience and value. With home working still the default…
