Office of Health Equity

727-824-6900

The local Office of Minority Health was created in 2000 after then-Governor Jeb Bush signed the Patient Protection Act at the Pinellas County Health Department. This historical act created the Closing the Gap program which aims to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities in Florida. Because health disparities cross barriers beyond race and ethnicity to areas such as income, access to care and gender, the Pinellas County Health Department consolidated OMH efforts into the Office of Health Equity in 2012.

For more information, contact us at  (727) 824-6900 or at
CHD52_MinorityHealthInfo@doh.state.fl.us.

Services Provided

Awareness, Cultural Competency, Education, Information, Guidance, Linguistics

Location

Main office:  205 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. N., St. Petersburg, FL 33701

Normal hours of operation

Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Email Advisory:
Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not want your e-mail address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in writing.

Links:

• Florida Department of Health’s Office of Minority Health
  http://www.doh.state.fl.us/minority/
• Florida Department of Health’s Women’s Health Information
  http://www.doh.state.fl.us/family/mch/index.html
• 2012 Health Observances
  http://www.healthfinder.gov/NHO/

Collaborative Partners:

• Center for Equal Health
  http://centerforequalhealth.org/
• Community Health Centers of Pinellas, Inc.
  http://www.chcpinellas.org/
• Hispanic Leadership Council
  http://www.hispanicoutreachcenter.org/en,hispanic-leadership-council
• Sanderlin Neighborhood Family Center
  http://sanderlinfamilycenter.org/
• St. Petersburg Chapter National Black Nurses Association, Inc.
  http://www.orgsites.com/fl/spnbna/
• St. Petersburg Free Clinic
  http://www.stpetersburgfreeclinic.org/
• Tampa Bay Community Cancer Network
  http://www.moffitt.org/research--clinical-trials/partnerships--studies/tampa-bay-community-center-network/overview
• Tampa Bay Healthcare Collaborative
  http://www.tampabayhealth.org/

Additional Information:

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  http://www.hhs.gov/
  
•  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  http://www.cdc.gov
• Office of Minority Health
  http://www.hrsa.gov
• Healthy People 2020
  http://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/default.aspx
• National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Minority Health http://www.nih.gov
• American Cancer Society
   http://www.cancer.org
• American Heart Association
  http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/
• American Diabetes Association
  http://www.diabetes.org/