Public Health Scotland’s role is to support and enable the wider public health system. Its success will be judged against meeting Scotland’s public health challenges and how it works collaboratively with partners, communities and the wider system to improve health and wellbeing in Scotland.

The ambition is for Scotland is to be a world leader in improving and protecting health and wellbeing. Public Health Scotland will be integral to realising that ambition. We will work in new and innovative ways using data, research and technology that will develop the best solutions for Scotland’s public health challenges now and in the future.