The Division of Environmental Health provides comprehensive delivery of inspection services, investigations, and education programs to citizens and consumers in order to assure a healthful and protected environment. 

This division includes five (5) units:
Animal Control Bureau
Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
Food & Drug Bureau
Rodent Control Bureau
Weights & Measures

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The Division of Medical Care Services promotes the health of all Newark residents, particularly the vulnerable population, by providing medical care services through a variety of medical practices.

The Ryan White Program is the largest federally funded program for people living with HIV (PLWH), and is third only to Medicaid and Medicare, as a source of HIV health care and treatment.  The program’s namesake, Ryan White, was an Indiana teenager who contracted the disease in 1985 from a blood transfusion.  Ryan White spent the last of his years as a public advocate for HIV research and awareness.  Because of his efforts, the Ryan White CARE Act was enacted by Congress in 1990 in response to the growing HIV epidemic, and the need to improve the availability and quality of healthcare for low-income, uninsured and underinsured PLWH.  The law, which has been reauthorized four times (1996, 2000, 2006 and 2009), establishes funding for Ryan White programs called “Parts”.   Part A grant awards are issued annually to eligible metropolitan areas (EMAs) and transitional grant areas (TGAs), who are most disproportionately impacted by HIV. 

Social Services provides quality services to Newark’s children and senior citizens through new technology; by collaborating with agencies; by identifying resources for funding new and major and/or existing programs; and by providing educational training for staff and community.

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Surveillance and Prevention monitors disease trends and develops and maintains a public health system in an effort to improve the City of Newark’s ability to address the health needs of residents and provide prevention and early intervention activities.

The Health Planning Division provides internal/external strategic planning/health planning assistance, data collection, analyses and support for the development, planning of initiatives, programs, services and grant applications of DHCW. The unit assists the department through data collection, research of effective science-based, evidence-based, "best practices", or "promising practices" to inform internal/external program planning/development, implementation and performance. The unit also provides assistance with policy development which includes research of enacted, pending or proposed state and federal policy that may impact public/community health or health care delivery services."

Health Planning incorporates three (3) units:

• Health Planning/Strategic Planning
• Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program - Part A
• Information Technology