Abstinence Education	Includes Federal Law creating the Abstinence Education Program, Abstinence Education Awards in Texas, Abstinence Education Awards Project Summaries, and an e-mail link to the Texas Abstinence Education Coordinator.
Alzheimers Disease	Supportive and educational programs to assist Alzheimer's patients, their families and long-term care providers.
Arthritis Program	The Texas Arthritis Program works to reduce the burden of arthritis on the people of Texas through secondary and tertiary prevention, including self-management programs and health communication strategies, and monitors the prevalence of arthritis among Texans.
Birth Defects Epidemiology and Surveillance	Collects data on births occurring throughout the state of Texas. Identifies and describes patterns of birth defects in Texas; and collaborates with others to find the causes of birth defects and work toward their prevention.
Cancer Registry	Maintains a population-based cancer incidence reporting system that collects, analyzes and disseminates information on all new cases of cancer.
Cardiovascular Health & Wellness Program	Provides technical assistance, consultation, and training to health agencies/sites, worksites, schools, and communities at large to affect change for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and stroke.
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program-CLPPP	Educates providers, parents, and the general public about childhood lead poisoning and iron anemia. Conducts monitoring and surveillance for children with lead poisoning.
Chronic Disease Prevention	Chronic Disease Prevention at DSHS provides information, education, resources, and assistance to the people of Texas to make healthy life choices, reduce the human and economic impact of poor health, reduce the incidence of premature death and disability, and promote healthy communities.
Community Preparedness Section	Provides strategic leadership and direction to ensure public health preparedness for bioterrorism, natural epidemics, and other public health threats and emergencies in Texas.
Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication	Combines the urgency of disaster communication with the need to communicate risks and benefits to stakeholders and the public. The site offers links, resources and training information in the area of risk communication.
Diabetes Council	Develops and implements a state plan to control diabetes.
Disaster Mental Health Services	Critical Incident Stress Management and Crisis Counseling, Texas Crisis Consortium, Emergency Management.
Disease Prevention News	Provides timely information on a variety of health issues.
Environmental Epi and Injury Surveillance Group	Focuses on collecting data to better define the magnitude of injuries in the state, and providing information and resources on how to prevent injuries.
Environmental Epidemiology and Toxicology Division	Their mission is to use the methods of epidemiology and toxicology to understand and prevent toxic exposures and illnesses, identify people at risk, and promote actions to protect them.
Epidemiology	Applies the principles and techniques of Epidemiology to a variety of public health concerns.
Hazardous Substances Emergency Events Surveillance	The purpose of this project is to describe the public health consequences associated with spills or releases of hazardous chemicals excluding those releases involving only petroleum fuels and natural gas.
HIV/STD, AIDS	Information on prevention and care in Texas. Find out about HIV/STD services in your area, access HIV/STD and AIDS statistics for Texas, or learn about eligibility requirements for the Texas HIV Medication Program.
Immunization Branch	Contains information on the Branch, an electronic edition of the newsletter Upshot, information on the automated immunization tracking system ImmTrac, disease incidence data, the Vaccines for Children Program, and more.
Infectious Disease Control Unit	Promotes epidemiology, surveillance, education, risk stratification/communication, consultation, and disease interventions.
Laboratory Services Section	Provides comprehensive diagnostic testing of human, animal and environmental specimens for the presence of infectious disease organisms. Offers professional expertise and consultation. Provides medical laboratory services for the state-mandated newborn screening program, Texas Health Steps Program, the Maternal and Child Health Program, Title V, and Childhood Lead Screening.
Multiple Sclerosis	Investigating an apparent cluster of MS in El Paso. In conjunction with this investigation, we have constructed this web page to help provide information for those who are concerned about MS and to help us gather information to aid our investigation.
National Electronic Disease Surveillance System for Texas-NEDSS	Provides a standards-based disease surveillance infrastructure that will promote the storage and electronic exchange of information, integrate surveillance and health information systems, provide methods for analyzing trends and detecting public health problems, and supply information for setting public health policy.
Obesity	Provides technical assistance, training, and nutrition consultation to health and human service organizations, communities, schools, and worksites.
Pharmacy Branch	Ensures departmental compliance with state pharmacy laws and regulations and FDA federal requirements for the receiving, storage, repacking, relabeling and shipping of medications to prevent, diagnose, and treat communicable diseases.
Public Health Preparedness	Resources regarding public health preparedness topics, including bioterrorism and chemical preparedness, for the public, health care professionals, and emergency responders.
Rabies Prevention	A guide for medical care providers, veterinarians, and animal control officers in the evaluation of possible exposures of humans to rabies and in the treatment of probable exposures.
Regional and Local Services	Serve the needs of Local Public Health Agencies, Health Service Regions, and local communities in building and maintaining capacity to provide essential public health services responsive to local needs.
Safe Riders Traffic Safety Program	Contains helpful information about child passenger safety, traffic safety for youth and older adults and locations of Texas SAFE KIDS coalitions.
School Health Program	Provides leadership and support to communities in their efforts to meet the health services and health education needs of children in a school setting by supporting comprehensive school health programming.
Texas Comprehensive Cancer Control Program	Provides leadership for and coordination of statewide cancer control efforts.
Texas Environmental Health Institute	Individuals often have to make choices about their lifestyles that can affect their health. They frequently need to rely on public authorities to provide them with reliable information so that they may make informed decisions. Often they also rely on government to protect them from threats which are beyond their control.
Tobacco Prevention and Control	Provides a clearinghouse of information on tobacco use prevention issues.
Toxic Substances Coordinating Committee	To protect and promote the health and environment of Texas through the prevention and control of adverse health and environmental effects related to toxic substances and harmful agents.
Traumatic Brain Injury	Educational programs, public policy initiatives, and supportive efforts to assist individuals with brain injury, their families and service providers.