Office phone

• Toronto Health Connection -- 416-338-7600
• After hours emergency -- 416-690-2142
• TTY phone -- 416-392-0658

Fax 416-392-0715
Email publichealth@toronto.ca
Web site www.toronto.ca/health
Address 277 Victoria St, 5th Floor, Toronto, ON, M5B 1W2


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Location (Intersection) Toronto Central (Yonge St and Dundas St E)
Hours Monday - Friday (8:30 am - 4:30 pm)
Area served City of Toronto
Languages of service English
Physical access Wheelchair accessible building including main entrance and barrier free washrooms
Service description

• health promotion, health protection and disease prevention programs and services

• Promoting Good Health
  • alcohol and drug use prevention
  • birth control
  • breastfeeding support
  • community grants and partnerships
  • dental care and education for eligible children and youth birth-17 years, including Healthy Smiles Ontario
  • dental care and education for seniors
  • family health information and counselling
  • food policy
  • Healthy Babies Healthy Children
  • health status monitoring and reporting
  • heart health
  • injuries and falls prevention
  • mental health
  • newborn hearing screening
  • nutrition promotion
  • parenting support
  • physical activity promotion
  • prenatal and postnatal home visits
  • prenatal nutrition
  • preschool speech and language (see separate entry Toronto Preschool Speech and Language Services)
  • healthy schools
  • sexual health promotion
  • smoking cessation
  • student nutrition
  • sun safety
  • tobacco education
• Protecting against health hazards
  • air quality improvement
  • beach water monitoring
  • day nursery inspection
  • DineSafe -- restaurant inspections
  • emergency response
  • environmental protection
  • food safety
  • heat alerts
  • pesticide reduction
  • risk communications
  • safe water
  • smoking by-law enforcement
  • swimming pools inspection
  • tattoo and personal service settings inspection
• Preventing Disease
  • Cancer prevention
  • communicable disease control
  • dental screening
  • disease surveillance
  • food handler training
  • Hepatitis A and B vaccines
  • HIV/AIDS hotline
  • immunization
  • institutional infection control
  • methadone clinics
  • needle exchange
  • outbreak management
  • rabies control
  • sexually transmitted infections follow-up and treatment
  • Toronto Bed Bug Project
  • tuberculosis control
  • West Nile Virus prevention
  • vaccine information
  • type 2 diabetes prevention
• Also administers the provincial AIDS and Sexual Health Infoline and The Mainline -- for full description see separate entry Ontario. Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

• Helplines
  • AIDS and Sexual Health Infoline (Toronto only) (416-392-AIDS)
  • The Works -- Needle Exchange 416-392-0520 or if busy 416-392-0521
  • Immunization Information Line 416-392-1250

Organization type Regional Government



Last complete update: 2011-06-08
Last modified date: 2011-08-04