Public Health

The Department of Public Health is responsible for the co-ordination and provision of all aspects of public health in Gibraltar.

These include:

• Health Promotion and Health Education of the public
• Cancer Registration
• Epidemiology and collecting data on health
• Assessing health needs
• Co-ordinating medical response to major incidents
• Prevention of Infectious Diseases
• Implementation of infection control policies
• Control of outbreaks
• Public Health laws
• Immunisation policy and vaccination programmes
• Population based Screening programmes
• Leading on the regulation of a number of healthcare professions

The Director of Public health manages various departments to ensure that the above objectives are met and these include:

• Health Promotion
• Infection Prevention and Control
• Screening
• Public Health Information Analysis