As the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26) in Glasgow nears, calls for politicians to heed warnings on climate change increase. We talked Atte Harjanne, a member parliament Finland, hear how some are trying incorporate scientific findings their decisions.

Background The importance of evaluating policy processes to achieve health equity is well recognised but such evaluation encounters methodological, theoretical and political challenges. This paper describes how a program theorybased evaluation framework can be developed and tested, using the example of an evaluation of the South Australian Health in All Policies (HiAP) initiative.   Methods A f...

Written by a group of political science researchers, this commentary focuses on the contributions of political science to public health and proposes research avenues to increase those contributions. Despite progress, the links between researchers from these two fields develop only slowly. Divergences between the approach of political science to public policy and the expectations that public hea...