About HOC

Health Officers’ Council of BC is a registered society of British Columbia public health physicians who, among other activities, advise and advocate for public policies and programs directed to improving the health of populations.

(HOC) are public health physicians practicing in British Columbia. Council members include, among others, medical health officers with regional health authorities, physicians with the BC Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, physicians in public health research and teaching, and physicians with the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch. For more than fifty years, members of the Health Officers’ Council have, individually and collectively, played key roles in every major public health achievement in British Columbia.

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