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Building on a strong team of diverse experts in their fields, Governor JB Pritzker announces more personnel appointments

The Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS) is receiving nearly $29 million in new federal funding to help the state fight the opioid crisis.

Senator Duckworth & Congressmen Davis and Hultgren Respond to IPHA’s Immigrant Crisis Letter

IDPH has been working with the Bausch Foundation to secure a donation of nearly 800,000 tablets of vitamin K. The tablets will provide treatment for people who have suffered severe bleeding after using synthetic cannabinoids laced with rat poison.

Download the proclamation and use in your local efforts in honor of National Public Health Week.

Prevention First has launched two media campaigns that are designed to address two issues related to opioid crisis.

“Don't Wait Until The Battle Is Over: Shout Victory Now!” from Christian Faith Publishing author Rev. Doris Green tells the story of one evangelist’s mission to reach the forgotten and hurting populations of the Illinois prison system. It is the story of how a liberatory prison ministry was built, and a record of the painstaking process through which incarcerated people make amends.

Racism, he says, is a “historical fact — a reality that we live in.”

About 40 community members attended this forum to discuss how Illinois can get to zero new HIV infections in the state by 2027.

APHA has ranked their blog's 10 most-read public health news stories of 2017.

Read newspaper story by Tom Hughes published in State-Journal Register.

Governor Bruce Rauner has released a statement regarding the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of the American Healthcare Act.

View the photos on the IPHA Facebook page and 'like' your favorite photo by April 9!

We are looking for students to submit a photo that represents the theme ‘I am Public Health’. All individual students that submit a photo by the April 5 deadline will have a chance to win a free registration to the IPHA 76th Annual Meeting!

IPHA AmeriCorps Members will implement special activities in their host site communities in honor of National Public Health Week

Governor Rauner has issued a proclamation declaring April 3-9, 2017 as Public Health Week in Illinois.

Join us for a chat about sugar

IDPH is reporting six cases of Seoul virus in individuals who had direct exposure to rats in two different Illinois ratteries.

Enter the Healthy Holiday Drinks Facebook Contest by December 16 for a Chance to Win an AHA Prize Pack!

Public Health Thank You Day salutes those whose work has made a difference in protecting the health of Americans.

Information on health care 'right of conscience' law and birth-control law

Jeffery Erdman provides comments on budget impasse effects on HIV programs

The Lake County Health Department will be hosting a press conference to announce the expansion of its Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) program for people struggling with opioid addiction.

Progress advocating for the Healthy Eating Active Living proposal with news story and fact sheet

The staff and members of the Illinois Public Health Association express their deep sadness over the recent tragedy in Orlando Florida. We stand firm in our commitment to personal freedom, religious tolerance and social justice. Our hearts are with the injured and victims family.