About HCPH
Mission
Hamilton County Public Health educates, serves and protects our community for a healthier future.
Vision
Healthy choices. Healthy lives. Healthy communities.
Who We Serve
Hamilton County Public Health is proud to serve the following communities in Hamilton County, Ohio.
- Addyston
- Amberley Village
- Anderson Twp
- Arlington Hts
- Blue Ash
- Cheviot
- Cleves
- Colerain Twp
- Columbia Twp
- Crosby Twp
- Deer Park
- Delhi Twp
- Elmwood Place
- Evendale
- Fairfax
- Forest Park
- Glendale
- Golf Manor
- Greenhills
- Green Twp
- Harrison
- Harrison Twp
- Indian Hill
- Lincoln Hts
- Lockland
- Loveland
- Madeira
- Mariemont
- Miami Twp
- Montgomery
- Mt. Healthy
- N. College Hill
- Newtown
- North Bend
- Reading
- Sharonville
- Silverton
- Springfield Twp
- St. Bernard
- Sycamore Twp
- Symmes Twp
- Terrace Park
- Whitewater Twp
- Woodlawn
- Wyoming
If you live in Hamilton County and your community is not listed, you may be served by one of Hamilton County’s three other local health departments.
If you live within the City of Cincinnati, you are served by the Cincinnati Health Department.
If you live in the City of Norwood, you are served by the Norwood Health Department.
If you live in the City of Springdale, you are served by the Springdale Health Department.
Health Commissioner
Greg Kesterman is health commissioner for Hamilton County Public Health, an agency with an operating budget of $23 million serving more than 495,000 residents across 45 political jurisdictions in Southwestern Ohio. He currently serves as president of the Association of Ohio Health Commissioners. Mr. Kesterman has been with Hamilton County Public Health since 2006, progressing from environmental health sanitarian to division director to assistant health commissioner for environmental health services before being asked to serve as health commissioner in 2020 — a role which immediately found him guiding the agency’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Before joining the agency, he built his career in environmental education, working in regional, state, and national parks across Maine, Wyoming, and California. Mr. Kesterman holds a B.S. in environmental studies from the University of Cincinnati and a Master of Public Administration from Northern Kentucky University, and is a National Environmental Health Registered Sanitarian.
Medical Director
Dr. Stephen Feagins is the medical director for Hamilton County Public Health and advises the health commissioner and Board of Health about local and national public health issues. A longtime physician and clinical leader, Dr. Feagins also serves as the vice president of medical affairs for Mercy West Hospital and the designated institutional official for graduate medical education for The Jewish Hospital and Mercy Anderson Hospital. He holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville, an M.B.A. in marketing from the University of Memphis, and an M.D. from the University of Tennessee.
Board of Health
Hamilton County Public Health is governed by a five-member Board of Health and day-to-day functions are carried out by the Health Commissioner. The Board has the authority to adopt rules, regulations and resolutions, which have the same status as law, and to enact policies within Hamilton County Public Health.
Board members are appointed to five-year, overlapping terms and at least one member must be a physician. According to Ohio Revised Code, all appointments to the Board of Health must be made with due regard to equal representation of all parts of the jurisdiction served by Hamilton County Public Health. In March of each year, the Board reorganizes, electing new officers and setting the time and location for the next year’s meetings.
Meeting Schedule
The Hamilton County General Health District Board of Health will be held on the second Monday of each month at 3 p.m (unless otherwise noted). Meetings will be held in the executive conference room at 1701 Patricia McCollum Way, Cincinnati, Ohio 45237.
Public commentary is welcome at the beginning of the meetings only. Speaking time is limited to two minutes per participant.
Board of Health Members
Dan Meloy – President
(2025-2030)
Max Miller – Vice President
(2024-2027)
Eric Knapp – Board Member
(2024-2029)
Dr. Elizabeth Kelly – Board Member
(2023-2028)
Mark Rosenberger – Board Member
(2026-2031)
More Information
Meeting Minutes
Meeting minutes from Hamilton County Board of Health meetings are available online on a rolling year schedule. If you require copies of meeting minutes from a date not posted on our website, please contact us at 513-946-7800.
2026
- January 12, 2026
- February 9, 2026
- March 9, 2026 (Public Hearing)
- March 9, 2026
- April 13, 2026
- May 11, 2026
- June 8, 2026
- July 13, 2026
- August 10, 2026
- September 14, 2026
- September 14, 2026 (Public Hearing)
2025
- January 13, 2025
- February 10, 2025
- February 10, 2025 (Public Hearing)
- March 10, 2025
- April 14, 2025
- May 12, 2025
- June 9, 2025 (Public Hearing)
- June 9, 2025
- July 14, 2025
- August 11, 2025
- September 8, 2025
- October 13, 2025
- October 13, 2025 (Public Hearing)
- November 10, 2025
- December 8, 2025
2024
- January 8, 2024
- February 12, 2024
- March 11, 2024
- April 4, 2024
- May 13, 2024
- June 10, 2024
- July 8, 2024
- August 12, 2024
- September 9, 2024
- October 14, 2024
- November 12, 2024
- December 9, 2024
2023
Our Board has the authority to adopt rules, regulations and resolutions, which have the same status as law, and to enact policies within Hamilton County Public Health.
View our current Schedule of Records Retention and Disposition.
Regulations and resolutions passed since 2007 are available to view. If you require access to a regulation or resolution from a year prior to 2007, please contact us.
2026
RESOLUTIONS
- Resolution A – 2026 STS Fees Certified
REGULATIONS
- Regulation 1 – 2026 Housing and Environmental Sanitation
- Regulation 2 – 2026 Food Fees
2025
RESOLUTIONS
- Resolution A – 2025 CDD Budget Revision
- Resolution B – 2025 Revised TB Budget
- Resolution C – 2025 STS Fees to Auditor
- Resolution D – 2025 Healthspace
- Resolution E – 2025 CD&D Budget
- Resolution F – 2025 Cybersecurity
- Resolution G – 2025 CMH Budget
- Resolution H – 2025 Budget for Hamilton County Central
- Resoultion I – 2025 Approved 2026 Budget
REGULATIONS
- Regulation 1 – 2025 Plumbing Fees
- Regulation 2 – 2025 Revised Plumbing and Medical Gas Fees
- Regulation 3 – 2025 BOH Plumbing and Medical Gas Regulation
- Regulation 3 – HCPH Plumbing and Medical Gas Regulation
- Regulation 4 – 2025 Food Fees
- Regulation 5 – 2025 Campground Fees
2024
RESOLUTIONS
- Resolution A – 2024 CDD Budget
- Resolution B – 2024 STS Program Delinquent Sewage Fees Certification
- Resolution C – 2024 Stormwater Budget
- Resolution D – 2024 Operating Budget
REGULATIONS
- Regulation 1 – 2024 Air Fees
- Regulation 2 – 2024 Food Fees
2023
REGULATIONS
- Regulation 1 – Food Fees
- Regulation 2 – Campground Fees
- Regulation 3 – Pool Fees
- Regulation 4 – Plumbing Fees
- Regulation 5 – Sewage Treatment Program Fees
- Regulation 6 – Birth & Death Certificate Fees
RESOLUTIONS
- Resolution A – Board of Health Bylaws
- Resolution B – TB CMH Budget Increase
- Resolution C – Budget Revision
- Resolution D – 2023 STS Program Delinquent Sewage Fees Certification
- Resolution E – C&DD Budget Adjustment Correction
- Resolution F – TB Fund Transfer
- Resolution G – SW OH Mutual Aid Agreement
- Resolution H – 2023 for 2024 Revised & 2025 Estimated Budgets
The first meeting of the Hamilton County Board of Health occurred on Sept. 26, 1919, following passage of Ohio’s Hughes Law and the Griswold Act. The Griswold Act created minimum requirements for local health departments in every community of the state and became the operational foundation for the Hamilton County General Health District.
Prior to 1919, each municipality or township in Ohio operated as its own health district, employing part-time, little-educated public health employees on salaries averaging $4-10 a week. More than 2,100 health districts existed in Ohio in the first two decades of the 1900s, with little oversight from the State Board of Health.
The Hughes Law and subsequent Griswold Act, which received widespread support from labor unions, women’s organizations and medical professionals, created a public health model for the country by organizing local health districts into city and county areas of populations of 25,000 or more.
At a minimum, each district was required to employ a full-time health commissioner, a nurse and a clerk. In addition, each district was required to have a five member board of health, with the health commissioner serving as administrative or executive agent of that board. A newly reorganized State Department of Health was given more oversight over local health districts, though local health officials retained the authority to resolve local issues.
In addition to monies collected at the local level, a $2,000 state stipend was given to each local health district to assist in carrying out public health duties in their respective jurisdictions. In Hamilton County, Dr. Charles Aleshire Neal was appointed the county’s first health commissioner in 1920. Dr. Neal soon after submitted a proposal for the district’s 1921 operating budget, totaling $20,000 including salaries for 13 part-time Environmental Health Specialists, a microscopist and a clerk. In 1929, Dr. Neal left Hamilton County to become the State Director of Health.
Much of the public health work conducted in Hamilton County in the 1920s is still carried out in some form today. For example, issues including school inspections, communicable disease prevention and reporting, and sanitation issues are still concerns in the 21st century.
Today, thanks to advances in technology and communication systems, these processes are carried out more quickly and more efficiently.
Partners in our community can be notified within hours of imminent public health threats or emergencies.
Food safety inspections, including restaurants, school cafeterias and grocery stores, are now conducted digitally, making inspection reports available to residents the next day with just the click of a mouse.
Illnesses that once led to community wide outbreaks can now be identified, tracked and treated much more quickly thanks to a real time communication system shared by a network of hospitals and physicians throughout the region.
Hamilton County Public Health serves more than 497,000 Hamilton County residents living outside the cities of Cincinnati, Norwood and Springdale. With a staff of more than 100, including Environmental Health Specialists, plumbers, health educators, nurses and epidemiologists, Hamilton County Public Health strives to prevent disease and injury, promote wellness, and protect people from environmental hazards.
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