We promote health and wellbeing at a community level and work closely with our industry partners to:

• coordinate and respond to disease outbreaks
• provide training and clinical support for immunization programs including school-based vaccination programs
• coordinate local responses to environmental health risks
• monitor compliance with public health legislation in relation to food safety and standards, water quality, tobacco control and regulation of drugs and poisons
• undertake health surveillance to observe health status and disease trends
• provide specialist public health advice which equips health services and local businesses to effectively plan and implement effective health programs.

You can contact the Public Health Unit by:

• Phone: 1300 017 190
• Fax: 07 5202 9889
• Email: SCPHU@health.qld.gov.au
• Post: PO Box 577, Maroochydore, Qld 4558.

You can find out more about communicable diseases such as Australian bat lyssavirus and Rabies Virus Exposure on the Queensland Health website.

The Queensland Health website also has information on:

• disease prevention in education and care services, including information about exclusion time for contagious conditions and management of gastroenteritis outbreaks
• immunization, including resources for the immunization schedule in Queensland, the School Immunization Program and Immunization fact sheets in different languages
• population health data and statistics, including links to cancer and other non-communicable disease clusters, communicable disease surveillance reports and preventive health reports.