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Office of Minority Health

Florida Department of Health - Hillsborough County

The Office of Minority Health is part of the Community Health Division in the Florida Department of Health-Hillsborough County.

We believe that good health should be an option for everyone. Our goal is for all of Hillsborough County to achieve optimal health where we live, learn, work, play, and socialize. Through our programs and services, we strive to assure all of Hillsborough County has access and opportunity to achieve full health potential by making policy, system, and environmental changes, conducting assessments and providing education.

The Office of Minority Health offers programs to help reduce the differences in health status between groups of people. Often differences in health status are not because of biology, but because of social, economic or environmental conditions like a person’s income level, education level, or the neighborhood where they live.

In the spring of 2022, the Office of Minority Health began the process of engaging a multi-sector Health Equity Task Force and Health Equity Coalition for the purpose of developing a Health Equity Plan. The 2022-2027 Health Equity Plan focuses on impacting two health disparities: decreasing Severe Maternal Morbidity rates and increasing Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) usage. Members of the Task Force, Coalition and other subject matter experts and stakeholders are now in the process of planning for and implementing projects to support health care quality and access efforts for these health disparities.

The full plan and related documents are listed below. Contact our Minority Health Liaison with any questions at MHHE.Hillsborough@flhealth.gov

Our office offers programs and services to understand and reduce health disparities if our community through different programs and services. These programs include:

For more information, contact us at HillsboroughMinorityHealth@flhealth.gov.