City and Hackney Public Health Team
Who we are
City and Hackney Public Health is a team of specialist public health professionals dedicated to protecting and improving the health and wellbeing of our diverse communities. We work across the City of London and the London Borough of Hackney, using evidence-based approaches to prevent ill health, reduce health inequalities, and respond to emerging health challenges.
We take a lifecourse approach, supporting residents from childhood to older age, with a particular focus on those facing the greatest barriers to good health. Our strength lies in collaboration – working with residents, the NHS, local government, businesses, and voluntary organisations to shape healthier environments and ensure equitable access to services.
What we do
We work across multiple levels – from individual behaviour change to system-wide policy influence – to improve health outcomes and create long-term, sustainable change. Our work is rooted in prevention, protection, and health promotion, ensuring that both the conditions for good health and the opportunities to make healthy choices are in place.
- Supporting healthy communities: we design and deliver targeted health programmes that promote healthy behaviours such as better nutrition, physical activity, smoking cessation, and mental wellbeing. Recognising the critical role of social connections, we work to strengthen community ties, reduce isolation, and enhance social capital.
- Creating healthy environments: we shape local policies on housing, air quality, green spaces, and urban planning to create healthier, more sustainable neighbourhoods.
- Tackling social and economic inequalities: we work with partners across sectors to influence policies and initiatives that improve education, employment, and income security – addressing the root causes of health disparities and advocating for fair opportunities that enable everyone to live a healthy life.
- Ensuring equitable access to services: we collaborate with the NHS, social care, and community partners to remove barriers to healthcare and preventive services, ensuring they are accessible, inclusive, and responsive to local needs.
- Protecting health: from managing infectious disease outbreaks to mitigating climate-related health risks, we play a critical role in safeguarding population health.
- Driving system leadership: as strategists and senior leaders, we embed public health principles into wider policies, ensuring that health is prioritised across all sectors and decision-making processes.
How we work
We take a collaborative, evidence-driven, and equity-focused approach to public health. Our work is guided by the best available insight, data, and research, ensuring that policies and interventions are effective, inclusive, and sustainable.
We advise, convene, and advocate, bringing together residents, local government, health and care services, businesses, and community organisations to align efforts and drive meaningful change. By embedding public health principles into decision-making at all levels, we help shape healthier environments, systems, and services.
We are committed to innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement, ensuring that public health in City and Hackney remains responsive, high-quality, and impactful. Through strong partnerships and shared leadership, we work towards a healthier, more resilient community where everyone has the opportunity to thrive.
Our vision is to enable people to live their best lives, healthy, happy and free by making positive changes within local communities and to achieve a more equal society.
For more information about the Public Health Team, including the team’s composition, key partners and current roles being recruited for, see the Public Health Team’s page on the Hackney website.