Department of Health and Human Services

noun

1. the department of the U.S. government that administers federal programs dealing with public health, welfare, and income security: created in 1979 from the reorganized Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. : HHS

Department of Health and Human Services

1. A department of the federal executive branch responsible for the Social Security Administration , the Public Health Service, and other programs designed to promote public welfare. It was originally called the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, until the separate Department of Education was created in 1979.

Example Sentences

Trump said Oz would work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom the former president nominated last week to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

From Los Angeles Times

Those controversial nominations will decide more than the future of the Justice Department, the Defense Department, the intelligence community and the vast Department of Health and Human Services — although those stakes are high enough.

From Los Angeles Times

But they’re no more outlandish than recent headlines about a Fox News co-host and combat veteran running the Department of Defense, or an anti-vaxxer picked to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

From Los Angeles Times

Robert F Kennedy Jr, Trump's nominee to serve as the head of the US Department of Health and Human Services, is meanwhile facing backlash over his vaccine scepticism.

From BBC

President-elect Donald Trump has announced he wants to appoint vaccine sceptic Robert F Kennedy Jr as the head of the US Department of Health and Human Services.

From BBC