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Welcome to the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit!
Public health programs keep our community healthy by promoting improved health, preventing disease and injury, controlling threats to human life and function, and facilitating social conditions to ensure equal opportunity in attaining health for all.

The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, in partnership with other agencies, and health care providers, seeks to enable all Windsor and Essex County residents to be as healthy as possible.

As Medical Officer of Health for Windsor-Essex County, I hope this web site will assist you in finding out more about the Health Unit as well as accessing our services.

        
Our Mission

The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit works with the community to promote, protect, and improve health and well-being for all.

Our Vision

A strong and healthy community.

Our Values

Professionalism
We provide the highest standard of service from qualified, competent staff.

Leadership
We apply our knowledge and expertise to identify solutions to the public health challenges facing our community, serving as a role model for proactive change.

Respect
We treat everyone with care, compassion, and dignity.

Empowerment
We enable individuals and communities to increase control over, and to improve, their health.

Health Equity
We use determinants-of-health framework to identify and respond to the health needs of priority populations and, working with key partners, pursue policies that support the health of the public.

Accountability
We manage our resources responsibly and transparently, ensuring all we do is well planned, researched, and evaluated.


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