“…the Spanish public health workforce 2 tends to be deployed in occupational health, environmental health and food safety, and fascinatingly includes medics alongside pharmacists and veterinarians. While in Quebec, Canada, 3 the spirit of the 1970s collective action is being reawakened so that community organisers work alongside other public health actors such as doctors, epidemiologists and health promotion workers, to reduce health inequalities from the ground up.…”