At the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), equity, diversity, and inclusion are at the core of our mission to advance the health and well-being of California’s diverse people and communities. We are genuinely and strongly committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness where we can grow and learn together with a diverse team of employees. In recruiting team members, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring to us and the work we do.
The Center for Family Health is one of eight Centers within CDPH, comprised of three divisions; the Genetic Disease Screening Program, Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Program, and the Women, Infants and Children Supplemental Nutrition Program, this Center is committed to protecting and promoting the health individuals, pregnant people, and their children.
Primary functions of the Center for Family Health are to; lead programs that support pregnant people and new parents, collect, analyze, and report California data on the health and well-being of families, screen pregnant people and new babies for life-threatening genetic conditions, assess their programs to understand if they are helping their families towards better health and engage in continuous quality improvement, develop communication and educational materials on topics related to health and pregnancy, infants, and adolescents, and continued commitment to ending inequities in maternal and infant health outcomes.