Reference Materials

Championing nature for a healthy future – Public Health Wales’ Biodiversity Action Plan 2024-2027

The report sets out how Public Health Wales is taking action to maintain and enhance biodiversity and promote the resilience of ecosystems. As part of the Environment (Wales) Act 2016, […]

Authors: Helen Bradley, Eurgain Powell

Published on: 6th December 2024

Reference type: Strategy

Determining the public health impact of climate change: A national study using a health impact assessment approach in Wales

Climate change is recognised as the biggest threat to global health of the 21st century and impacts on health and wellbeing through a range of factors. Due to this, the […]

Authors: Liz Green, Kathryn Ashton, Nerys Edmonds, Michael Fletcher, Sumina Azam, Karen Hughes, Mark Bellis, Phil Wheater

Published on: 24th April 2024

Reference type: Journal

Addressing single-use plastic and waste in Public Health Wales’ microbiology labs: case studies

View the report that these case studies relate to.

Authors: Tracy Evans

Published on: 22nd April 2024

Reference type: Case study

Tackling the public health effects of climate change – find out how you and your team can take action

Public Health Wales has a new strategic priority: tackling the public health effects of climate change, in recognition of the climate emergency being the greatest health threat facing humanity. This […]

Authors: Tracy Evans, Eurgain Powell

Published on: 5th October 2023

Reference type: Strategy

Be the change – procurement that doesn’t cost the earth

Procurement is costly. Welsh public sector spends £7 billion on procurement. A huge 62% of the 2018/19 carbon footprint for NHS Wales was from procurement.Sustainable procurement can mean considering not […]

Authors: Tracy Evans, Eurgain Powell

Published on: 24th January 2023

Reference type: Guidance

Be the change – sustainable home and agile working

We are living in a fast-changing and uncertain world, in the time of a global climate emergency and a global pandemic, which highlight the importance of acting and living sustainably […]

Authors: Richard Lewis, Tracy Evans

Published on: 19th May 2021

Reference type: Guidance

Be the change – well-being goals challenge

The well-being goals challenge sets out six separate behaviour change challenges that inspire us to act to live more sustainably. They are designed to be undertaken on your own, with […]

Authors: Richard Lewis, Tracy Evans, Angie Kirby

Published on: 17th May 2021

Reference type: Guidance

Be the change – helping nature to flourish

Nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history and the rate of species extinctions is accelerating, with grave impacts now likely on people around the world. Our health […]

Published on: 1st January 2020

Reference type: Guidance

Implementing the Sustainable Development Principle: Lessons from a literature review on implementing the Five Ways of Working

This resource provides key learning and actions that public bodies, policy makers and practitioners can take to implement the sustainable development principle, as set out in the Well-being of Future […]

Authors: Victoria Hands, Radu Cinpoes, Fatima Annan-Diab, Annette Boaz, Carol Hayden, Richard Anderson, Alisha Davies, Sumina Azam, Cathy Weatherup, William King

Published on: 5th September 2019

Reference type: Article

Be the change – sustainability on the agenda

‘Sustainability on the Agenda’ highlights some of the practical ways in which we can contribute to Wales’ Well-being Goals when we arrange meetings and events/ conferences.

Authors: Richard Lewis

Published on: 1st April 2019

Reference type: Guidance