Provincial Population & Public Health provides programs and services to people living in Alberta across the lifespan in settings where they live, learn, work, play and heal with a focus on improving population health outcomes and health equity. Our programs and services cross many topic areas and intervention types including:

• Cancer screening and prevention (breast, colorectal and cervical cancers)
• Chronic disease prevention across the lifespan
• Communicable disease control (vaccine-preventable illnesses, tuberculosis, sexually transmitted infections and other notifiable diseases)
• Emergency and disaster management (preparedness, risk mitigation, response, recovery and continuity of business and services)
• Environmental health protection (health inspections of public places, enforcement of applicable legislation, and air, water and environmental site assessments)
• Injury prevention (fall prevention, transportation safety, suicide, bullying, and domestic violence prevention)
• Naloxone kit distribution 
• Newborn screening (testing for hearing loss and 22 conditions, including cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease and spinal muscular atrophy)
• Oral health (promotion, prevention and targeted treatment)
• Public health evidence and innovation
• Sexual and reproductive health, preconception, maternal/parental and child health, school-age child and youth health promotion
• Surveillance and health status assessment
• Tobacco, vaping and cannabis prevention, protection, cessation and enforcement