Directorate-General of Health

Support Unit of the National Public Health Officer and Public Health Emergencies Management

Areas of activity

To support the Director-General of Health in his activities as National Public Health Officer, namely in supervising and coordinating public health officers;
To support the National Public Health Officer:

In assuring timely and discretionary action by the State in case of serious public health risk;
In requisition of health services or professionals, when in serious public health emergencies, by public statement of the Ministry of Health;
Within national health surveillance regarding international mobility of people and goods, in assuring the compliance with the International Sanitary Regulation;
In the decision of appeals resulting from actions of public health officers;

To provide legal advice to public health officers;
To issue documents and information regarding the actions of public health officers
To coordinate the assessment of public health threats and to collaborate is risk management with other departments of the Directorate-General of Health, with international institutions, to assure an adequate response;
To assure the communications regarding national and international warnings, including the recipience, analysis and issue of notifications on several warning systems;
To explore early detection public health warning tools, namely to collect data on unexpected situations and phenomena, on multiple information sources;
To assure the management and update of the Directorate-General of Health’s website and its social networks;
To accompany and mediate media relations, as well as to analyse and internally publish national and international media that are deemed relevant for the activities od the Directorate-General of Health.

Staff