Federal Occupational Health (FOH) is a service unit within the Department of Health and Human Services’ Program Support Center. FOH is a component of the United States Public Health Service, our nation's foremost health agency, created by Congress in 1798.

FOH works in partnership with Federal organizations nationally and internationally to design and deliver comprehensive solutions to meet their occupational health needs. FOH’s mission is to improve the health and safety of the government workforce by designing and providing innovative, customized, cost-effective occupational, environmental health and work/life solutions that exceed customer expectations.

Federal Occupational Health was created in 1946 by an amendment to the Public Health Service Act and has sixty years of experience providing services exclusively to Federal agencies and the Department of Defense. FOH is currently the largest provider of Clinical, Wellness/Fitness, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Work/Life, and Environmental Health and Safety services to the Federal Government.

FOH is the largest provider of Clinical, Wellness/Fitness, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Work/Life, and Environmental Health and Safety services to the Federal Government and provides occupational health services to more than 360 Federal Government departments and agencies, reaching 2.9 million Federal employees.

Clinical services, including emergency response, physical exams, immunizations, vision and health screenings, and health risk appraisals are provided through FOH’s 300 Health Centers located throughout the United States and through a large network of more than 700 private-provider physicians and nurses. FOH’s EAP services are similarly provided by staff counselors located in more than 200 counseling offices in Federal buildings as well as through a vast network of affiliate counselors in approximately 11,000 locations across the country and overseas.