The Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Directorate has the main aim to protect and promote the health and wellbeing of people residing in the Maltese Islands by:
• Supporting and empowering individuals to adopt a healthy lifestyle;
• Carrying out effective surveillance and control of communicable diseases;
• Developing and implementing strategies for the reduction of the burden of communicable and non communicable diseases;
• Advocating for the creation of environments conducive to health.