Health Department
The Health Department’s operations include providing public health education, compiling vital health statistics, surveilling and controlling communicable diseases, enforcing environmental regulations, and the administration of many other programs that protect and improve the health of the county’s residents. Since the Health Department was created over 60 years ago, significant progress has been made in preventing infectious diseases, addressing infant mortality, safeguarding the environment, and in dealing with new and emerging threats from opioid misuse, obesity, environmental lead, HIV, and pandemic influenza. There are 324 employees who work in the Allegheny County Health Department. These individuals fulfill many roles: administrators, administrative and logistical support, environmental engineers and technicians, inspectors (food safety, housing, water, plumbing), environmental and policy attorneys, microbiologists, disease investigators, epidemiologists and statisticians, lab technicians, public health nurses, dental healthcare workers, nutritionists, public health educators, community resource and outreach coordinator. ABOUT To protect, promote, and preserve the health and well-being of all Allegheny County residents, particularly the most vulnerable. MISSION
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