One of the big goals for the province’s public health team this year will be what Dr. Janice Fitzgerald calls the “reinvention of public health.”
The pandemic has had many to think of Public Health simply as communicable disease control, but it’s duties are far broader than that.
Fitzgerald said the office is very big on public health promotion., addressing social determinates of health and health equity.
Case on points, said Fitzgerald were the inequities brought to the surface during the pandemic.
She said they are working on a population health assessment right now and hope to release that in 2023, as well, as they are working on developing a public health plan for the next five years.