This Infant Mental Health Framework represents a commitment by the Public Health Agency, Health and Social Care Board and Trusts, as well as academic, research, voluntary and community organisations across Northern Ireland, to improve interventions from the ante-natal period through to children aged three years old.

The PHA has developed three leaflets to explain the stages of the Newborn Hearing Screening Programme in Northern Ireland. There is also a checklist to help you to monitor your baby's development in addition to the Smart4Hearing (S4H)

This leaflet discusses the help available to women who experience a mental health problem in the perinatal period, the name given to the period during pregnancy and up to one year after birth.

The Department of Health (DOH), Public Health Agency (PHA) and the Health and Social Care Trusts (HSCTs) seek to promote a consistent approach to routine enquiry into domestic abuse, providing a trauma-informed, strengths-based response.

This leaflet is for children and adults born before January 2020 who are still eligible for the MMR vaccine. Those children born after can receive the MMRV for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (chickenpox) as part of the routine vaccin

The aims of the evaluation were to describe the development and implementation of Live Better, assess the effectiveness of partnership working, examine barriers and facilitators to delivery, determine the impact of activities..

The PHA led on the planning, delivery and evaluation of the ‘Live Better’ initiative launched by the Minister for Health in July 2024. 

In September 2025, facilitated stakeholder feedback workshops were held to recognise work completed, shar

3+ Review: Guidance for Pre-school Education Teachers and Leaders - Health and Education Working in Partnership to Support Pre-school Children

This risk assessment tool is for use by midwives, family nurses, GPs, social care and health visitors. It has been developed using the evidence base regarding sudden infant death and associated risk factors.

Udated guidelines for health pofessionals on folic acid and vitamin D supplementation.

This leaflet highlights the importance of the routine childhood immunisation schedule which was revised on 1 January 2026.

This leaflet is for people living in a care home for older adults who will be offered the RSV vaccine to protect them against Respiratory Syncitial Virus, an infectious disease of the lungs and airways that can be serious for older adults.

Read the latest issue of the PHA Update - February 2026. 

The PHA Update serves as a regular communication channel, sharing news, progress reports, upcoming campaigns and initiatives, and developments across public health programmes. 

This leaflet encourages uptake of the whooping cough vaccine for pregnant women. Getting the vaccine while pregnant can protect your baby. The whooping cough vaccine is now available through your Health and Social Care Trust antenatal clini

This leaflet encourages people over 65 and those with particular health conditions to get their pneumococcal vaccine (PPV).