Columbus Public Health

If passed, the city's public health department would be required to oversee an alternative crisis response team, that would respond to certain emergencies instead of police officers. This could include mental health, welfare checks and calls about substance abuse.

A Columbus Public Health spokesperson said the six cases all involve children under five years old.

Public health officials with Columbus and Franklin County say a person infected with measles visited a Target store in New Albany and the New Albany Learning Center on Sept. 25.

A Centers for Disease Control committee is meeting Thursday and Friday to vote on vaccine policies. Columbus Health Commissioner Dr. Mysheika Roberts was set to be on that committee until Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. changed all of the appointees earlier this year.

The 2025 Franklin County health map provides a comprehensive look at health indicators in the county and serves as a guide to show officials where to concentrate resources.

Columbus Public Health Commissioner Dr. Mysheika Roberts was removed from the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. She was one of 17 people who were dismissed Monday from the committee by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Columbus Public Health terminated 11 infectious disease staffers after the Trump administration eliminated $11.4 billion in grants nationwide for infectious disease funding.

Columbus Public Health recently lost about half of a $6 million grant for COVID-19 enhanced operations, leading CPH to let go of 11 infectious disease investigators.

Five years after COVID-19 started spreading in Ohio, Dr. Mysheika Roberts, health commissioner of Columbus Public Health, is reflecting on the community's response.

Whitehall City Schools has identified students who need to be tested after possible exposure.