LACDPH meaning in Governmental ?

What is Los Angeles County Department of Public Health mean?

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) provides public health services to Los Angeles County residents. Barbara Ferrer is the Director for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Muntu Davis, MD, MPH is the Los Angeles County Public Health Officer. Jeffrey Gunzenhauser is the Interim Health Officer and Medical Director for Los Angeles County.

With a budget of 893 million dollars, Public Health has 39 programs and 14 public health centers to serve 10 million LA County residents.

On March 27, 2014, former director Johnathan Fielding announced that he will retire from the department and go back to UCLA "to help train future health leaders and do research on how we can be even more effective."

Public Health programs include:

Environmental Health: operates restaurant rating system and grading systems for apartments and rental homes; inspects sewage treatment and water plants; enforces state and local environmental lawsChronic Disease & Injury Prevention; including Tobacco Control and Prevention, Nutrition, Senior Health, Physical Activity Promotion and Injury and Violence PreventionCommunicable Disease Control & Prevention; including Acute Communicable Disease, Immunizations, Veterinary Public Health, Tuberculosis Control Program, and Public Health Laboratory.Substance Abuse Prevention & ControlHIV & STD ProgramsCommunity Health ServicesHealth Assessment & EpidemiologyHealth Facilities InspectionChildren's Medical ServicesMaternal, Child & Adolescent HealthEmergency Preparedness and Response reference nan