Strategic Goal 2: Safeguard and Improve National and Global Health Conditions and Outcomes

Strategic Objective 2.1: Improve capabilities to predict, prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters, public health and medical emergencies, and threats across the nation and globe

Strategic Objective 2.2: Protect individuals, families, and communities from infectious disease and non-communicable disease through equitable access to effective, innovative, readily available diagnostics, treatments, therapeutics, medical devices, and vaccines

Strategic Objective 2.3: Enhance promotion of healthy behaviors to reduce occurrence of 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 disasters, public health and medical emergencies, 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.

In the context of HHS, this Strategic Plan adopts the definition of underserved communities listed in Executive Order 13985: Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through the Federal Government to refer to “populations sharing a particular characteristic, as well as geographic communities, who have been systematically denied a full opportunity to participate in aspects of economic, social, and civic life”; this definition includes individuals who belong to underserved communities that have been denied such treatment, such as Black, Latino, and Indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other persons of color; members of religious minorities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons; persons with disabilities; persons who live in rural areas; and persons otherwise adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality.  Individuals may belong to more than one underserved community and face intersecting barriers.  This definition applies to the terms underserved communities and underserved populations throughout this Strategic Plan.

Related Executive Orders (EO) and White House Action Plans, Directives, and Guidance:

Related Legislation:

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).

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