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The Chicago Department of Public Health's Mission is to make Chicago a safer and healthier place by working with community partners to promote health, prevent disease, reduce environmental hazards and ensure access to health care for all Chicagoans.

• Provide leadership for Public Health.
• Identify, analyze and track issues. Define problems and guide public health action.
• Inspect food establishments to ensure safe food supply.
• Establish a public health presence in city neighborhoods.
• Deliver services either directly or through delegate agencies.
• Advise Chicagoans of their rights as health care consumers and help them get care from HMOs and other medical providers.

Check out our Healthy Chicago Initiative!

Alerts (Public Health)

	Feb 2, 2012	Change of Hours for South Austin and West Town Specialty Clinics
	Jan 30, 2012	Request for Proposal for Effective Integrated Behavioral Health/Primary Care Networks
	Jan 18, 2012	Volunteers needed to join the 2012 HIV Planning Body
	Dec 15, 2011	Syphilis Special Surveillance Report
	Nov 30, 2011	2011 HIV/STI Surveillance Report

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Most Recent News (Public Health)

Feb 3, 2012	National Wear Red Day. American Heart Month Raises Awareness about the Importance of Heart Health
Feb 1, 2012	City of Chicago Encourages Residents to Know Their HIV Status and Get Tested
Jan 29, 2012	City Announces Nearly $1 Million in Federal Funding for HIV Testing and Treatment in Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Centers.
Jan 25, 2012	New Chicago Public Schools Health Officer will Focus On Developing Comprehensive Healthy Schools Program
Jan 18, 2012	City Council Approves Ordinance to enhance Public Health Safety and make doing business in Chicago easier for food businesses
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What We Do

• Board of Health
• Clinical Health
• Environmental Health
• Environmental Permits & Regulation
• Food Protection
• Grant Opportunities
• Healthy Chicago
• Infectious Disease
• Influenza (The Flu)
• Information, Statistics, and Reports
• LGBT Health
• Office of Healthcare Access
• Public Health Emergency Preparedness
• STI/HIV
• Tobacco Prevention and Cessation
• Violence Prevention

Supporting Information

• Chicago Partnership for Public Health
• Fast Track Immunization Clinics
• File a Public Health FOIA Request
• Food Establishment Forms, Codes & Regulations
• Healthy Chicago: Transforming the Health of our City
• Household Chemicals & Computer Recycling Facility Overview
• Tuberculosis Clinics

City Data

• Clinics - Mental Health
• Clinics - Neighborhood Health
• Clinics - STI Specialty
• Clinics - Women Infant Children (WIC)
• FOIA Request Log - Public Health