Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
The Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention seeks to influence those social norms that provide a framework for health promotion and disease prevention across life stages. DHPDP works collaboratively with agencies, institutions and community-based organizations representative of the social determinants of health to foster the development and implementation of policy and environmental strategies that enable healthy individual behaviors. Programmatic areas include nutrition and physical activity, chronic disease prevention and control, genetics/genomics, health communications, healthy aging/health and disabilities, men's health and women's health and place particular emphasis on the elimination of disparities in health outcomes.
Programs
- Nutrition and Physical Activity Unit
- Overweight – Obesity Prevention and Control Initiative
- Nutrition Initiatives
- Physical Activity Initiatives
- Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Unit
- Healthy Aging and Disability Unit
- Office of Healthy Aging
- Office on Health and Disability
- Men's Health Unit/Women's Health Unit
- Office of Community Liaisons
- Office of Health Communication
This division is a part of the Bureau of Community Health Access and Promotion.
Contact Information
Bureau of Community Health Access and Promotion
250 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02108
phone: 617) 624-5467
fax: (617) 624-5990
email: Cynthia.Boddie-Willis@state.ma.us
Cynthia Boddie-Willis, M.D., MPH
Director, Division of Community Health Promotion
This information is provided by the Division of Community Health Promotion within the Department of Public Health.