Oregon’s public health system is changing how it prevents diseases and protects and promotes health. Since 2013, Oregon has been transforming its governmental public health system to ensure critical ...

Public health is what a nation does together as a society to create and ensure the conditions in which everyone can be healthy. 1 Periodically, circumstances call for a dramatic shift in the ways in ...

Understand and apply the core philosophical and ethical values, concepts and functions of public health in theory and practice. Gather, evaluate, and utilize qualitative and quantitative health data ...

One of the outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic is the closer alignment between emergency management and the disease monitoring and prevention function of public health. Typically we dealt mainly with ...

Jeanne Lambrew testifies to the Senate Finance Committee's "Prepare for Launch" Summit on health care reform. Two year-old Austin Shea—a recipient of public health benefits—poses as his parents look ...

This year marks the 85th anniversary of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH), an important milestone that reflects more than eight decades of leadership, collaboration, and ...

Public health preparedness and response is a critical area of focus as Defense Public Health transitions some of the military component public health functions to the Defense Health Agency. This ...