The Greenwich Department of Health is responsible for protecting, promoting and improving the health of Greenwich residents by implementing the provisions of essential public health services, carrying out public health core activities which include monitoring the public’s health status, investigating and responding to disease outbreaks, enforcing laws and regulations to protect the public’s health, developing health policies, identifying critical health needs, educating the public about public health issues, allocating health resources to those who are in need and plan for emergencies which may require a public health response.