The Assistant Agency for Preventive Health is tasked with many tasks and responsibilities, including:
- Supervising all the activities of the departments related to the Agency.
- Preparing and implementing the training programs of the preventive health.
- Developing the policies and procedures of the preventive health and circulating them to the departments related to the agencies.
- Following up asserting the policies and procedures
- Providing evidence-based database in the preventive health field.
- Developing plans and contributing to drawing up the future policies and needs to continue uprooting such as infantile paralysis and putting paid to others such as measles and rubella.
- Building the control programs for some communicable diseases such as dengue fever and viral hepatitis and non-communicable ones such as diabetes.
- Preparing early for facing the novel and transmitted diseases.
- Crafting the disease-based awareness messages in cooperation and coordination with the MOH Health Awareness Department.
- Taking part in determining the health priorities and needs by studying the current status and what is to be achieved in the future
- Coordinating with the general departments and concerned bodies in the directorates for training the disease coordinators.
- Setting the guidelines of the communicable and non-communicable diseases in line with the evidence-based medicine.