Department of Health

The Department of Health was a national public health institute of the Galactic Alliance. The Department of Health was a department under the General Ministry. Its main goal was to protect public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease, injury, and disability. The Department of Health focuses its attention on developing and applying disease control and prevention. It especially focuses its attention on infectious disease, food borne pathogens, environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, injury prevention and educational activities designed to improve the health of Galactic Alliance citizens. In addition, the Health Organization researches and provides information on non-infectious diseases.

Roles and Duties
As well as collecting health data from planetary and interplanetary governments and organization the Health Department also advised the senate and the chief of state on all matters of health and any bill therein that would effect health.

Another duty of the health department was to oversee, in conjunction with the treasury department, health funding aid and direct health aid approved by the senate for planetary governments and interplanetary organizations.