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unusual facts about Department of Health



Advancing Quality

AQ will be independently evaluated by the University of Manchester Business School, which has been contracted to carry out a five-year evaluation for the Department of Health.

Christopher Kelly

He was the Permanent Secretary to the Department of Health from 1997 to 2000, while Frank Dobson and later Alan Milburn were the Secretary of State.

Clive Peedell

He is notable for having run 160 miles in six days from Aneurin Bevan's statue in Cardiff to the Department of Health in London in protest against the Health and Social Care Bill.

Eileen Rubery

Eileen Doris Rubery CB QHP FRCR FFPHM FRCPath (née McDonnell, born 16 May 1943) is a British academic who has worked in such diverse fields as medical research (at one point Senior Medical Officer of the Department of Health), business and management studies, and presently, art history and history.

Empilisweni District Hospital

Starting July 2011, Broadreach Healthcare - an NGO assisting the South African National Department of Health in the management and treatment of HIV/AIDS in rural populations - built a comprehensive ARV site on the hospital grounds using donor funding; it became fully operational since March 2012.

Four-hour target in emergency departments

A four-hour target in emergency departments was introduced by the Department of Health for National Health Service acute hospitals in England.

Herbert L. Ley, Jr.

During Ley's tenure, the FDA was admonished by consumer advocates, congressional committees and its own parent agency, what was then the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Information Centre for Health and Social Care

The organisation was created as a special health authority on 1 April 2005 by a merger of parts of the Department of Health, parts of the NHS Information Authority, and the Prescribing Support Unit.

Klára Poláčková

Following her post as Regional Communications Manager at Euro RSCG Worldwide (2000–2003), she took up a position in the London office (2003–4) and (in 2004-6) worked as a communications consultant in the UK for the Department for Constitutional Affairs and the Department of Health.

Melanie Johnson

From 1999 to 2005 Johnson was a junior minister serving first as Economic Secretary to the Treasury, next in the DTI as Minister for Competition and Consumers, and finally as Minister for Public Health in the Department of Health.

National Diffusion Network

The program was created administratively by the then-Office of Education in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as an effort to make use of the best of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III education innovations.

Robert P. Hanrahan

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress, but became a deputy assistant secretary for education at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare from 1975 to 1977.

Somoso General Hospital

Two years after the 25 bed capacity was approved, Clinica Somoso applied for a secondary level licensure which was again approved by Department of Health / Medicare so again, the Clinica Somoso became the first secondary hospital in Panabo, Davao del Norte.

The Silver Line

This led to a meeting at the invitation of Paul Burstow MP in the Department of Health to discuss the creation of a helpline.

Toby Moffett

Moffett served as Director of the Office of Students and Youth in the Office of Education within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1969 to 1970, but quit to protest the Vietnam War.

Tsing Yi

The Department of Health operates two general out-patient clinics on the island in Tsing Yi Town.


see also

2009 flu pandemic in the Philippines by region

After suspecting 92 influenza cases, the Department of Health on June 14 declared community outbreak in barangay Hilera, Jaen, Nueva Ecija.

AIDS.gov

On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2006, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched AIDS.gov.

Alan McFarland

Empey did not back down from his stance and appointed Michael McGimpsey to the Department of Health instead.

Alexander Finta

In New York, Finta would have commissions from New York's Authors Club, the First Presbyterian Church, the Hungarian Reference Library, Cleveland Public Library, the city's Department of Health, and numerous public artworks within the region.

Bettie Cilliers-Barnard

Most recently in 1992 she painted "Vision" for the Pretoria Eye Institute and some of her other commissions including the painting "Flight" for South African Airways, 1983, the tapestry "Guardian Angel of the Arts" for t he State Theatre of Pretoria, 1981, and her mural in oils "Mensa sana corpore sano" for the Department of Health in Pretoria, 1980.

Brit milah

In a Motion for preliminary injunction with intend to sue, filed against New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene, affidavits by Doctors Awi Federgruen Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

Business license

In addition, Department of Health (DOH) issues certain professional licenses, District Department of Transportation (DDOT) regulates public space, and Office of Zoning (DCOZ) controls land use.

Child Nutrition Act

To meet its task, the IOM committee also reviewed and assessed the food and nutritional needs of school-aged children in the United States using the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans set by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and USDA, as well as the IOM’s Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI).

Cochrane Collaboration

It is funded by the Effective Health Care Research Programme Consortium, UK (via the British DFID and the International Health Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine) The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Indiam the Cochrane Schizophrenia Group (via the Department of Health, UK and the University of Nottingham), and the World Health Organization's Clinical Trials in Children group.

Constantine Menges

Menges worked to ensue equal voting rights in Mississippi and marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. During the Nixon and Ford administrations, he was as deputy assistant for civil rights in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Enrique Ona

He is the current Secretary of the Department of Health, succeeding Dr. Esperanza Cabral.

Hawaii Department of Health

The Hawaii Department of Health administers Kalawao County, the state's smallest county, which consists of the three villages Kalaupapa, Kalawao, and Waikolu, located on the Kalaupapa Peninsula on the north coast of Moloka'i.

Head Start

Head Start Program, a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services

Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee

Perez's professional experience includes work with the Milwaukee County Department of Health and Social Services and service as the founder and executive director of the Milwaukee Community Service Corps.

Instantatlas

For example, Department of Health, New Zealand, uses it to publicly present patterns and trends in a wide range of health conditions across the country while Diabetes UK, a national charity, use it to highlight the differences in local service provision to citizens and to make their own lobbying more effective.

Irish Medical Organisation

Today the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) is the sole negotiating body on behalf of all doctors in Ireland, recognised for negotiating purposes under the Trade Union Act 1941, though the IHCA also represents consultant grades in official negotiations with the Health Service Executive HSE and the Department of Health.

Jane Symons

Unusually for a tabloid health writer, Symons was praised in the British Medical Journal, where Professor David Colquhoun of the Department of Pharmacology, at University College London wrote that "It isn’t often that a Murdoch tabloid produces a better account of a medical problem than anything the Department of Health’s chief scientific advisor can muster.".

JCVI

Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, an independent expert advisory committee of the United Kingdom Department of Health.

Mary Creagh

In June 2009 she was made an assistant Government Whip in the Department of Health.

MultiWeb Internet Browser

The browser was developed by the Equity Access Research and Development Group at Deakin University under a grant from the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Family Services.

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

Currently, Dr. Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., directs the NIH; he in turn reports to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius.

National Welfare Rights Organization

Leaders in the welfare rights movement were some of the first to be able to meet with Daniel P. Moynihan after he was appointed to the White House staff and leaders also started to meet regularly with Robert Finch, the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

Nicole Lurie

She has previously served in federal government, as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health in the US Department of Health and Human Services; in state government, as Medical Advisor to the Commissioner at the Minnesota Department of Health; and in academia, as Professor in the University of Minnesota School of Medicine and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

OPHS

Office of Public Health and Science, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services

Orange County Health Department

Water-borne diseases investigated by the Orange County Health Department, the Florida Department of Health and the CDC have also included Giardia, Cyclosporiasis and Cryptosporidiosis.

RSA Tower

Its tenants include Raycom Media's headquarters, Morgan Keegan & Company, the Capital City Club, the Alabama Public Health Association, Alabama Department of Health, Alabama Department of Insurance, Alabama Artists Gallery, Bell Microproducts, and other legal, financial, and insurance firms.

Sam Dixon

Samuel Gibson Dixon (1851–1918), Commissioner of the State Department of Health in Pennsylvania

Social enterprise lending

Futurebuilders manages four funds: The Department of Health’s Social Enterprise Investment Fund (SEIF), The Modernisation Fund, from the Cabinet Office, The Communitybuilders Fund, on behalf of the Department of Communities and Local Government and the Office of the Third Sector and the Futurebuilders England Fund.

Stanford American Language Institution

• 2005 - Merit Award for Play Facilities and Equipment Safety Award, by the Department of Health, the Executive Yuan of R.O.C.

• 2004 - 2nd Place in Disease Free - Campus Health Promotion Award, by the Department of Health, the Executive Yuan of R.O.C.

Stewart Simonson

Dr. Louis Cataldie, the Louisiana State Medical Examiner, wrote in his recently released book, Coroners Journal: "I respect Stewart Simonson, Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness at the Department of Health and Human Services, who met me face-to-face and stayed true to his word.

Tirso del Junco, Jr.

In 1997 he was appointed Commissioner to the California State Athletic Commission and was a member if the Oversight Committee of the Department of Health Service for California.

University of the Philippines College of Medicine

Esperanza Cabral - Former Philippine Secretary of Department of Health; former Philippine Secretary of Social Welfare Administration and Development - S.W.A..

William Steiger

William R. Steiger, political appointee in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under George W. Bush known for his role in the politicization of science

Y. G. Parameshwara

In 1979, he was appointed Health Officer and Assistant Surgeon in the Department of Health and Family Welfare of the Government of Karnataka.