The Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) is a government agency that focuses on health care, education, and disease prevention. Its services include communicable disease control, environmental health assessment, health information, statistics, research and evaluation, and family and community healthcare services. The organization offers health aid focusing on adolescent health issues, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), asthma, mad cow disease, cancer, polio, lung diseases, tuberculosis, and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs). Additionally, it provides clinical laboratory, drug control, food protection, and radiation control programs. DPH is based in Boston, Massachusetts.
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