Vision Statement
Adopted January 10, 2008
"A healthy California for all through public health education, advocacy, and action."
Mission Statement
Adopted 1985
Subject to the specific and general purposes stated in the Articles of Incorporation, the objectives and purposes of this corporation are, on a nonprofit basis, to:
(a) Promote and improve public health practices in the State of California through increasing knowledge about the cause, prevention and cure of diseases, conditions or states detrimental to the health of the people of California. Provide a forum for the exchange of information and for the accumulation and dissemination of knowledge by and among the local health officers in the state on public health matters of importance and concern to the people of the State of California.
(b) Conduct studies and other research including but not limited to such environmental, epidemiological, clinical and administrative matters as may be necessary and important for the benefit of the public and for public welfare.
(c) Promote and support legislation which will accomplish the objectives and purposes of the corporation.
(d) Increase the knowledge and practice of public health in California by promoting high professional and medical educational standards.
(e) Foster and support other organizations which have similar purposes and objectives.
(f) Exercise any and all rights and powers of a corporation of this type that may now or hereafter be exercised under the laws of the State of California or the United States of America, and to acquire by bequest, gift, grant, purchase or otherwise, any and all types of property or interest therein of every kind and description.
