One of the big goals for the province’s public health team this year will be what Dr. Janice Fitzgerald calls the “reinvention of public health.”

The pandemic has led many to think of Public Health simply as communicable disease control, but its duties are far broader than that.

Fitzgerald says the office is very big on public health promotion, addressing social determinates of health, and health equity.

Case in point says Fitzgerald were the inequities brought to the surface during the pandemic.

She says they are working on a population health assessment right now and hope to release that in 2023. As well, they are working on developing a public health plan for the next five years.