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Public Health Service

Proper noun

Meaning

the Public Health Service

A major division of the Department of Health and Human Services dedicated to promoting the public health of the United States.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Examples

Anderson also left the state for work, it was reported, with the U.S. Public Health Service. Source: Internet

Brett Giroir, head of the U.S. Public Health Service. Source: Internet

Determined to change the landscape of medicine, he became an expert in bacteriology and immunology and developed a new blood test diagnosing syphilis that the U.S. Public Health Service later implemented. Source: Internet

The 21 personnel, primarily nurses, from the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps join 15 medical professionals from the Veterans Health Administration to help the two hospitals safely care for patients with COVID-19. Source: Internet

Peterson was also inspired by the discovery that her ancestors had been unwilling participants in the infamous conducted by the United States Public Health Service and the Tuskegee University in Alabama beginning in 1932. Source: Internet

The waiver power under the Social Security Act requires both a determination under the Public Health Service Act by the health and human services secretary and a presidential declaration under either the Stafford Act or the National Emergencies Act. Source: Internet

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