to assure and evaluate the public health in Yuma County through education, intervention, prevention,delivery of services, and advancement of publi policies that address current and emerging public health issues in a manner that demonstrate our efficiency, effectiveness, integrity and leadership.
Our community needs our help, We realize that volunteers have wide range of choices as to where and how they spend their volunteer time and we appreciate you are considering the Yuma County health Preparedness Program to help. if you ever work at emrgency respond, or you like to work with paper work or if you are a nurse. we need you.

Description:
Public Health preparedness is the planned, unlawful use, or threat of use, of biological weapons made from living organisms with the intent of causing death or desease in humans, animals, or plants. The goal of Public Health preparedeness is usually to create fearand / or intimidate goverment and societes for the purpose of gaining political, religious, or ideological goals.

History:
Public healt preparedness is in yuma since 2002

Contact people:

Martha Alonzo, Admin. Assistant, (phone), (email) Benito Lopez, Epidiemologist, (phone), (email) Michelle Smith, Program Cooordinator, (phone), (email)

Office fax number: (928) 317-4620

Languages Spoken: English, Spanish

Address:

2200 W 28th Street Yuma, AZ 85364 This location is handicap accessible (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.co.yuma.az.us

Directions:

by Juvenile justice court on 28th street & avenue B   Nearest Bus Stop: ycap, door minute walk