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| Formed | April 27, 1905 |
| Jurisdiction | Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
| Headquarters | 8th Floor West, Health and Welfare Building, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania |
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| Website | http://www.health.pa.gov |
Pennsylvania Department of Health is a cabinet-level agency in Pennsylvania. [1]
| Name | Dates served | Appointed by |
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| Samuel Gibson Dixon | 1905–1918 | Samuel W. Pennypacker |
| Edward Martin | 1919–1923 | William Cameron Sproul |
| Charles H. Miner | 1923–1927 | Gifford Pinchot |
| Theodore B. Appel | 1927–1935 | John Stuchell Fisher |
| Edith MacBride-Dexter | 1935–1939 | George Howard Earle |
| John J. Shaw | 1939–1941 | Arthur James |
| Alexander H. Stewart | 1942–1945 | |
| Harry W. West | 1945–1947 | Edward Martin |
| Norris W. Vaux | 1947–1951 | James H. Duff |
| Russell E. Teague | 1951–1955 | John S. Fine |
| Berwyn F. Mattison | 1955–1957 | George M. Leader |
| Charles L. Wilbar | 1957–1967 | |
| Thomas W. Georges | 1967 | Raymond P. Shafer |
| Ellsworth R. Browneller | 1970–1971 | |
| J. Finton Speller | 1971–1974 | Milton Shapp |
| Leonard Bachman | 1975–1979 | |
| Gordon K. MacLeod | 1979 | Dick Thornburgh |
| H. Arnold Muller | 1979–1987 | |
| N. Mark Richards | 1987–1991 | Bob Casey Sr. |
| Allan S. Noonan | 1992–1995 | |
| Peter J. Jannetta | 1995–1996 | Tom Ridge |
| Daniel F. Hoffman | 1996–1999 | |
| Robert S. Zimmerman | 1999–2003 | |
| Calvin B. Johnson | 2003–2008 | Ed Rendell |
| Everette James | 2008–2011 | |
| Eli Avila | 2011–2012 | Tom Corbett |
| Michael Wolf | 2012–2015 | |
| Karen Murphy | 2015-2017 | Tom Wolf |
| Rachel Levine | 2017–2021 | |
| Alison Beam (acting) [2] | 2021-2022 | |
| Keara Klineparter (Acting) | 2022 | |
| Denise Johnson (Acting) | 2022-2023 | |
| Debra Bogen | 2023-Present | Josh Shapiro |
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