Georgia Emerging Infections Program
Georgia Department After Hours Reporting
To report after-hours public health notifiable disease emergencies:
Contact the Public Health Reporting Hotline
(1-866-PUB-HLTH or 1-866-782-4584)
1-866-PUB-HLTH (1-866-782-4584) is Georgia’s Notifiable Disease Emergency Reporting Hotline. It is available for use 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for time-sensitive communication among healthcare providers, Public Health, and emergency responders.
1-866-PUBHLTH is for the reporting of immediately notifiable diseases, including those that could result from a bioterrorism event, and public health emergencies. This one easy-to-remember number is distributed to all local, state, and federal partners for use in a public health emergency.
1-866-PUB-HLTH is staffed by Public Health Specialists (PHS) who respond to calls according to protocols developed by Public Health. Calls are triaged by the PHS according to urgency and public health significance, and those that require immediate notification of Public Health are passed to the Health District On-Call Representative for response.
Callers can always request to speak with someone in Public Health immediately, even when reporting a non-urgent public health issue. 1-866-PUB-HLTH operates under the legal authority of OCGA §31-12-2, which requires notifiable disease reporting, including those diseases that may result from “bioterrorism, epidemic or pandemic disease, or novel and highly fatal infectious agents or toxins and that may pose a substantial risk of a public health emergency.”
For more information about Epidemiology Services, contact Epidemiology staff at 706-295-6656 or by fax at 706-802-5342
