Health Professionals

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (DPH) maintains this health professionals' website to facilitate easy access to public health resources including information on how to report communicable diseases and how to consult DPH specialists. All comments and suggestions on how to improve this website are welcome.

Visit the LAHAN webpage to:

• Subscribe to receive important public health information for LA healthcare professionals.
• See past health alerts, advisories, and updates on topics such as local or national disease outbreaks and emerging infectious diseases.

• California law mandates that healthcare providers report over 85 diseases or conditions (including animal bites to humans) to their local health department.
• The Healthcare Provider Reporting page summarizes how professionals can report by disease or condition and includes links to reporting forms and phone numbers.

• Phone consultation is available for health care providers weekdays 8:00 am-5:00 pm for all communicable diseases including TB and STD, veterinary public health, and public health laboratory questions.
• For urgent public health consults that cannot wait until the next working day, health care providers may call 213-974-1234 and ask for the physician on call.

• Visit the CME webpage to see up coming in-person and online CME activities as well as on-demand webinars and articles.
• Free CME is available for all these activities.

• Rx is the sibling publication of LAHAN. It addresses non-urgent public health subjects in clinical medicine, community health, and health policy. Single topic articles are released
• View the publication or subscribe to receive an email when an article is published.