Formed 1834 (1834) | ||
Headquarters 333 S. State Street, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60604 Department executive Julie Morita, MD, Commissioner Website www.cityofchicago.org/Health | ||
The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) is a government department of the City of Chicago. Its mission is to make Chicago a safer and healthier place by working with community partners to promote health, prevent disease, reduce environmental hazards and ensure access to health care for all Chicagoans including:
Contents
- Leadership
- Structure
- Healthy Chicago
- Healthy Chicago Documents
- Chicago Department of Public Health Apps
- References
Leadership
Structure
CDPH Organizational Structure.
Healthy Chicago
On August 16, 2011, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Commissioner Bechara Choucair, MD unveiled the Healthy Chicago public health agenda with the Chicago Department of Public Health. Healthy Chicago identifies 16 health outcome targets and 12 key priority areas and over 200 supporting strategies including:
Food Insecurity is one of Chicago’s major public health concerns. In 2011, 122, 998 low- income Chicago residents were classified as living in neighborhoods that were food insecure. This term identifies residents who have to travel more than 1 mile to reach a food establishment of 10,000 sq. ft. or more selling fresh produce. Since the approval to release food desert data Mayor Rahm Emanuel has launched a city-wide plan “A Recipe for Healthy Places” which a program that supports health eating, aides in the funding of health-food establishments, and promotes the farming of healthy foods. In addition to this initiative, the city has also help establish 15 new grocery stores through the city and the conversion of CTA buses in mobile grocery stores to serve residents living in food deserts who might also struggle with transportation. With massive improvements the City of Chicago has seen 21% decrease in the number of low-income individuals who live in food deserts and has since then made continual effort to help retailers sell healthy food and also funded alternative food sources such as urban farms. Mayor Rahm Emanuel has projected that by 2020 the City of Chicago should be able to eliminate all food deserts.