United States Department of Health and Human Services

United States Department of Health and Human Services
Set up:	17th October 1979
Seat:	Hubert H Humphrey Building , Washington, DC
Supervisory authority:	President of the United States
minister	Alex Azar
Deputy	Eric Hargan
Household:	845 400 000 000 (2010) $
Employees:	67,000 (2004)
Homepage:	hhs.gov

Headquarters in Washington, DC

The United States Department of Health and Human Services ( English United States Department of Health and Human Services HHS, for short) is the US Department of Health and constitutes a part of the US federal government .

The department's mission is to “promote and protect the health and well-being of all US citizens by providing high-quality medical and humanitarian services and adequately supporting medical research, public health and social services.” The primary subsidiary is the US Public Health Service , who is subordinate to the Surgeon General of the United States and has a military form of organization. The Department is based in Washington, DC

It was through the Department of Education Organization Act created and participated in the May 4, 1980, together with the newly established Ministry of Education to work on. The tasks of the ministry were integrated into the Ministry of Health, Education and Welfare until the Federal Law was passed in 1979 . The department is led by the United States Secretary of Health.

The Department of Health has the largest budget of the US departments, ahead of the Department of Defense , but is only in the middle in terms of the number of employees.

Subordinate authorities

• Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
• Administration on Aging (AoA)
• 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 and Medicaid Services (CMS)
• Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
• Indian Health Service (IHS)
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Program Support Center (PSC)
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA)

List of U.S. health ministers

No.	image	Surname	Term of office	Presidency
1		Patricia Roberts Harris	August 3, 1979-20. January 1981	Jimmy Carter
2		Richard Schultz Schweiker	Jan. 22, 1981-3. February 1983	Ronald Reagan
3		Margaret Mary Heckler	March 9, 1983-13. December 1985
4th		Otis Ray Bowen	December 13, 1985-20. January 1989
5		Louis Wade Sullivan	March 1, 1989-20. January 1993	George Bush
6th		Donna Edna Shalala	January 22, 1993-20. January 2001	Bill Clinton
7th		Tommy George Thompson	February 2, 2001–26. January 2005	George W. Bush
8th		Michael Okerlund Leavitt	January 26, 2005–19. January 2009
9		Kathleen Gilligan Sebelius	April 28, 2009–9. June 2014	Barack Obama
10		Sylvia Mary Mathews Burwell	June 9, 2014–20. January 2017
-		Norris Cochran (acting)	January 20, 2017–10. February 2017	Donald Trump
11		Thomas Edmunds Price	February 10, 2017–29. September 2017
-		Don J. Wright (acting)	September 29, 2017–10. October 2017
-		Eric Hargan (acting)	October 10, 2017–28. January 2018
12		Alex Azar	since January 29, 2018

Web links

Commons : United States Department of Health and Human Services  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• United States Department of Health and Human Services (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Department of Health and Human Services: FY 2011 President's Budget for HHS. ( Memento of April 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF)
2. ^ "It is the mission of the US Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to enhance and protect the health and well-being of all Americans. We fulfill that mission by providing for effective health and human services and fostering advances in medicine, public health, and social services. " About HHS , accessed July 29, 2020.