With the federal government cutting vital programs and reducing the public health workforce (the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alone lost roughly 3,000 employees in 2025), many states and ...

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 ...

Public health involves a collective social effort to enhance health and prevent communicable and non-communicable diseases. Public health fulfills its mission through organized, interdisciplinary ...

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 ...