Public Health Ontario

Identity area

Type of entity

Higher-level Ontario government office (type B)

Authorized form of name

Public Health Ontario

Parallel form(s) of name

  • Santé publique Ontario

Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules

  • Public Health Ontario

Other form(s) of name

  • Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion

  • Agence ontarienne de protection et de promotion de la santé

Identifiers for corporate bodies

Description area

Dates of existence

2007-

History

Public Health Ontario was created in the summer of 2007 as the Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion.

The agency is governed by a board of directors of up to 13 members appointed by the lieutenant governor-in-council, with a chair selected by the members. It is accountable to the minister of health through the chair of the board of directors.

The founding board held its first meeting in September 2007 and the first president and chief executive officer was appointed in March 2008.

In fall 2010, the board approved the operating name Public Health Ontario.

Places

Legal status

Functions, occupations and activities

Public Health Ontario is an operational service agency that provides scientific and technical advice and support to the health care system, develops and disseminates public health knowledge, best practices, and research, contributes to policy development and public health planning, operates and maintains laboratories, and provides scientific, technical and operational support in emergency or outbreak situations.

Address

Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion Act, 2007

Internal structures/genealogy

General context

Relationships area

Related entity

Ontario. Ministry of Health. Laboratories Branch (1916-2008)

Identifier of related entity

CA1525

Category of relationship

temporal

Type of relationship

Ontario. Ministry of Health. Laboratories Branch is the predecessor of Public Health Ontario

Dates of relationship

Description of relationship

Access points area

Subject access points

Place access points

Epithet

Control area

Authority record identifier

BA767

Institution identifier

Rules and/or conventions used

RAD: Rules for Archival Description, 2nd edn (2008)

Status

Approved

Level of detail

Dates of creation, revision and deletion

2026-11-16: migrated to AtoM

Language(s)

    Script(s)

      Sources

      Public Health Ontario annual reports.

      Public Appointments Secretariat (https://www.pas.gov.on.ca/Home/Agency/339).

      Maintenance notes

      Archivist(s):
      Hope