The nine key areas for public health practice

The Faculty's core values are that public health practice should be:

  • equitable
  • empowering
  • effective
  • evidence-based
  • fair
  • inclusive

In light of these core values, and the three domains of public health practice, we have agreed nine key areas for public health practice.

These nine areas are at the basis of all standards of training and practice that the Faculty develops.

The nine key areas are:

  • Surveillance and assessment of the population's health and wellbeing
  • Assessing the evidence of effectiveness of health and healthcare interventions, programmes and services
  • Policy and strategy development and implementation
  • Strategic leadership and collaborative working for health
  • Health Improvement
  • Health Protection
  • Health and Social Service Quality
  • Public Health Intelligence
  • Academic Public Health