The Faculty of Public Health (FPH) [1] is the standard-setting body for specialists in public health in the UK. Its overarching mission is to promote and protect the health and wellbeing of everyone in society. FPH achieves this by playing a leading role in assuring an effective public-health workforce, producing a wide range of resources to encourage best practice, promoting public-health knowledge through high-quality output in its scientific publication the Journal of Public Health, and advocating and lobbying at national and European levels for the very best conditions for good health [2]. FPH is the professional home for more than 3,300 professionals working in public health. Its members come from a diverse range of professional backgrounds (including clinical, academic, policy) and are employed in a variety of settings [3].