Environmental Health & Injury Prevention

Statement of Purpose: To promote and protect the health and well-being of people in Georgia by assuring conditions in which people can be healthy.

Primary Goal: Ensure a safe and healthy environment through education, policy development, and regulation.

Branch Sections:

Environmental Health

Provide primary prevention through a combination of surveillance, education, enforcement, and assessment programs designed to identify, prevent and abate the environmental conditions that adversely impact human health.

Injury Prevention

Provide leadership in the prevention of injury in Georgia.