State Public Health Plan

In partnership with key public health organisations, development of the 2025 State Public Health Plan (the 2025 Plan) commenced in late 2024. The timeline below highlights key activities in the development of the 2025 Plan. The 2019-2024 Plan remains active until the release of the 2025 Plan.

Key milestones

  • Kick off workshop - 6 December 2024
  • Data and evidence collection - December 2024 to April 2025
  • Priority area workshop 6 February 2025
  • Exploration of plan presentation options and development of plan structure - December 2024 to April 2025
  • Targeted consultations - February to April 2025
  • Draft plan released for targeted consultation - May to June 2025
  • General plan consultation - July 2025
  • Final plan release

The State Public Health Plan 2019-2024 (PDF 1MB), establishes the vision for a healthy, liveable and connected community for all South Australians. This vision is supported by four strategic priorities, under the headings of the public health approaches of promote, protect, prevent and progress.

The Plan provides a framework to work together to take early action to protect health, prevent illness and promote physical and mental health and wellbeing for all South Australians, supporting the principles and objectives of the South Australian Public Health Act 2011.

The summary of the State Public Health Plan (PDF 478KB) provides an overview of the Plan.

Priorities

The Plans priorities are:

  • Promote: Build stronger communities and healthier environments
  • Protect: Protect against public and environmental health risks and respond to climate change
  • Prevent: Prevent chronic disease, communicable disease and injury
  • Progress: Strengthen the systems that support public health and wellbeing.

The actions outlined in the Plan under these priorities are a combination of progressing ongoing and essential foundational services as well as new work focusing on the priorities and identified public health risks and opportunities.

Further information

For further information please email publichealthact@sa.gov.au.