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Minn. Department of Health outlines mission, bureaus and priorities for 2025 session
Summary
Deputy Commissioner Wendy Underwood gave the Senate Health and Human Services Committee an overview of the Minnesota Department of Health’s structure, core programs and equity agenda, highlighting public-health workforce size, lab testing volumes and a new Center for Health Care Affordability.
Deputy Commissioner Wendy Underwood told the Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Jan. 21 that the Minnesota Department of Health’s mission is “to protect, maintain, and improve the health of all Minnesotans.”
Underwood said the department is organized into five bureaus, employs roughly 1,800 staff and operates programs ranging from newborn screening to environmental health inspections. She told senators the agency’s work spans prevention, outbreak detection, lab testing and health equity efforts and that many big health outcomes are driven by social and economic factors outside clinical care.
The overview was intended to give committee members baseline information…
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