The Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, works to strengthen the disease prevention and health promotion priorities of the Department within the collaborative framework of the HHS agencies.  View ODPHP Strategic Plan.

Highlights

• New Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans released
• Improved healthfinder.gov Makes Health Information Quicker and Easier to Use
• HHS Launches Childhood Overweight and Obesity Prevention Initiative
• 2009 National Health Observances
• Developing Healthy People 2020
• Expanding the Reach and Impact of Consumer E-Health Tools
• Visiting Scholar Online Application
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2005

Selected Projects

• Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 — Published jointly with the U.S. Department of Agriculture every 5 years since 1980, this publication is the statutorily mandated basis for Federal nutrition education activities. Visit http://www.healthierus.gov/dietaryguidelines/.
• healthfinder.gov — healthfinder.gov is a gateway Web site linking consumers and professionals to over 6,000 health information resources from the Federal Government and its many partners since 1997. Visit http://www.healthfinder.gov/.
• Healthy People 2010 — Healthy People 2010 presents a comprehensive set of disease prevention and health promotion objectives developed to improve the health of all people in the United States during the first decade of the 21st century. Visit http://www.healthypeople.gov/.
• Healthy People 2010 Health Communication Focus Area — The six objectives in the focus area represent a range of key issues in health communication. They address the diffusion of the Internet to households, the quality of health Web sites, health literacy, provider-patient communication, research and evaluation of communication programs, and Centers of Excellence in health communication. Visit http://www.healthypeople.gov/document/HTML/Volume1/11HealthCom.htm.
• Healthy People 2020 — ODPHP is developing the next decade's disease prevention and health promotion objectives.  Visit http://www.healthypeople.gov/hp2020/.
• Luther L. Terry Senior Fellow serves as the Senior Clinical Advisor in the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP), which is located within the Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  Visit http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov/projects/LutherTerry.htm for more information.
• National Health Information Center (NHIC) — This Internet-accessible clearinghouse with a toll-free number provides a central health information referral service for consumers and professionals using a database of more than 1,700 national associations, Government agencies, and other organizations. Visit http://www.health.gov/nhic/ or call 1-800-336-4797.

Publications

• ODPHP Publications Catalog and Order Form [PDF format - 1.2 MB]
• 2009 Federal Health Information Centers and Clearinghouses [PDF format - 329 kb], 2009 National Health Observances [PDF format - 0.6 MB], and 2009 Toll-Free Numbers for Health Information [PDF format - 611 kb]
• Healthy People Midcourse Review (December 2006)
• Healthy People 2010 (November 2000)
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005, Sixth Edition
• Prevention Report
• Information for Health: A Strategy for Building the National Health Information Infrastructure (staffed by ODPHP)
• Wired for Health and Well-Being: The Emergence of Interactive Health Communication

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Contact

RADM Penelope Slade-Sawyer, P.T., M.S.W.
Director
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite LL100
Rockville, MD 20852
Voice (240) 453-8280
Fax (240) 453-8282
http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov

Updated August 18, 2009