Strategic Objective 2.1: Improve capabilities to predict, prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies, disasters, and threats across the nation and globe
Strategic Objective 2.2: Protect individuals, families, and communities from infectious disease and non-communicable disease through development and equitable delivery of effective, innovative, readily available, diagnostics, treatments, therapeutics, medical devices, and vaccines
Strategic Objective 2.3: Enhance promotion of healthy behaviors to reduce occurrence and disparities in preventable injury, illness, and death
Strategic Objective 2.4: Mitigate the impacts of environmental factors, including climate change, on health outcomes
HHS is dedicated to safeguarding and improving health conditions and health outcomes for everyone. The Department improves capabilities to predict, prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies, disasters, and threats, domestically and abroad. The Department protects individuals, families, and communities from infectious disease and prevent non-communicable disease through the development and equitable delivery of effective, innovative, readily available, treatments, therapeutics, medical devices, and vaccines. HHS enhances the promotion of healthy behaviors to reduce occurrence and disparities in preventable injury, illness, and death. The Department also mitigates the impacts of environmental factors, including climate change, on health outcomes.
Related Executive Orders (EO) and White House Action Plans and Directives:
- EO 12898: Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations.
- EO 13985: Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through the Federal Government
- EO 13987: Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government to Provide a Unified and Effective Response to Combat COVID-19 and to Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and Security
- EO 13990: Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science To Tackle the Climate Crisis
- EO 13991: Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing
- EO 13994: Ensuring a Data-Driven Response to COVID-19 and Future High-Consequence Public Health Threats
- EO 13995: Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery
- EO 13996: Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological Threats
- EO 13997: Improving and Expanding Access to Care and Treatments for COVID-19
- EO 14001 National Strategy for a Resilient Public Health Supply Chain
- EO 14002: Economic Relief Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic
- EO 14008: Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad
- EO 14013: Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs to Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration
- American Pandemic Preparedness: Transforming Our Capabilities
- Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, March 2021
- National Security Memorandum on United States Global Leadership to Strengthen the International COVID-19 Response and to Advance Global Health Security and Biological Preparedness
- National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness, January 2021
- Path Out of the Pandemic: President Biden’s COVID-19 Action Plan
- U.S. COVID-19 Global Response and Recovery Framework, July 2021
Within HHS, the following divisions are working to achieve Strategic Goal 2: Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration for Community Living (ACL), Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Indian Health Service (IHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), Office for Civil Rights (OCR), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Financial Resources (ASFR), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), Office of Global Affairs (OGA), Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
