The PHA Annual report provides background information about the organisation, highlights the achievements during the 2009–2010 financial year and provides an overview of work undertaken in priority areas for each directorate.
 

This edition of Transmit focuses on some of the issues and volume of work being handled by the health protection duty room since January 2010.

It features an outline of the arrangements for the team leading work on emergency preparedness and environmental hazards, an update – including the uptake rates – on the childhood vaccines and vaccine preventable diseases, the risks associated with exposure to bats and rabies, and new guidance that has been issued by the DHSSPS in relation to HIV infection and post-exposure prophylaxis, including sexual exposure.
 

This publication, the 13th issue of R&D Today - the biannual newsletter of the Health and Social Care Research and Development Division (HC R&D) - profiles the work supported by Northern Ireland’s Health and Social Care R&D fund. This issue reflects the position of HSC R&D as a division of the regional Public Health Agency.
 

This first annual report of the Director of Public Health highlights the many public health challenges that affect people in Northern Ireland and how the public health team tackles this complex agenda by working with many statutory, community and voluntary partner organisations across health, local government, education, housing and other sectors.