public health
noun
: the art and science dealing with the protection and improvement of community health by organized community effort and including preventive medicine and sanitary and social science
Examples of public health in a Sentence
a disease that poses a serious threat to public health
She got her degree in public health.
Public health officials warned of an influenza outbreak.
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While the Health Department is working to appeal the injunction, Kennedy attempted to circumvent the judge’s ruling on the ACIP members by altering the committee’s charter to, among other things, allow for people without expertise in immunizations and public health to be members.
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Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2026
Spencer, who remains an ER doctor and is now also a public health professor at Brown University, tested positive for Ebola after treating patients in Guinea with Doctors Without Borders in 2014.
—Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 19 May 2026
The World Health Organization has declared an international public health emergency as a growing Ebola outbreak in Central Africa sparks concern that the deadly virus could spread beyond the region — including into the United States.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026
What seemed to some an oddball local experiment here has become the leading edge of a public health revolution.
—Katharine Silbaugh, STAT, 19 May 2026
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Beth Mole, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2026
Spencer, who remains an ER doctor and is now also a public health professor at Brown University, tested positive for Ebola after treating patients in Guinea with Doctors Without Borders in 2014.
—Youri Benadjaoud, ABC News, 19 May 2026
The World Health Organization has declared an international public health emergency as a growing Ebola outbreak in Central Africa sparks concern that the deadly virus could spread beyond the region — including into the United States.
—Angelica Stabile, FOXNews.com, 19 May 2026
What seemed to some an oddball local experiment here has become the leading edge of a public health revolution.
—Katharine Silbaugh, STAT, 19 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for public health
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“Public health.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/public%20health. Accessed 20 May. 2026.
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public health
noun
pub·lic health
ˌpəb-lik- 
: the art and science dealing with the protection and improvement of community health by organized community effort and including preventive medicine and sanitary and social science
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