Department of Health and Human Services

noun

1. the department of the U.S. government that administers federal programs dealing with public health, welfare, and income security: created in 1979 from the reorganized Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. HHS

Department of Health and Human Services

1. A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the Social Security Administration, the Public Health Service, and other programs designed to promote public welfare. It was originally called the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, until the separate Department of Education was created in 1979.

Example Sentences

Department of Health and Human Services, which is led by the vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

From Los Angeles Times

Kennedy stepped around the question to talk specifically about antidepressants: a longtime bugbear for the current head of the Department of Health and Human Services.

From Salon

The Department of Health and Human Services said the FDA was making these changes as hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19 had declined dramatically.

From Los Angeles Times

The Department of Health and Human Services plans to cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu.

From Los Angeles Times

Department of Health and Human Services is weighing a petition sent earlier this month by the Drug Enforcement Administration to review the scientific evidence and consider easing restrictions.

From Los Angeles Times