TRANSYLVANIA
PUBLIC HEALTH

DEDICATED TO IMPROVING
AND PROTECTING YOUR HEALTH.

ABOUT US

Transylvania Public Health is dedicated to improving and protecting the health of all people in Transylvania County. We believe that “health” is more than just the absence of disease; true health is overall physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing, which is influenced by personal characteristics, behaviors, social and economic factors, and the environment.

Together, we serve our community by preventing disease and injury, promoting and encouraging healthy behaviors, protecting against environmental hazards, ensuring access to needed services, and responding to outbreaks and disasters. Many of these functions are invisible to the public. In fact, people typically become aware of the need for public health only when a problem develops.

This department ensures that residents have access to clean water and safe food, prevention and control of infectious diseases, education about and access to nutritious foods for themselves and their children, and help receiving health care services.

OUR STAFF MEMBERS WORK TO:

  • monitor the health status of our community,
  • engage the community to identify and solve health problems,
  • enforce public health laws and regulations,
  • develop public health policies and plans,
  • protect people from health problems and hazards,
  • give people the information they need to make healthy choices,
  • and help people receive health services.

Transylvania Public Health is an agency of Transylvania County Government.

Transylvania Public Health

is located at 106 East Morgan Street in downtown Brevard.

Administrative offices and Environmental Health offices are located on the first floor.

Personal Health Services and WIC offices are located on the third floor.

Hours of Operation

Monday – Thursday
8:30am-12:00pm & 1:00pm-5:00pm

Friday
8:30am-5:00pm (last appt at 4:30pm)

828.884.3135

[email protected]

BOARD OF HEALTH

The Transylvania County Board of Health is the policy-making, rule-making, and adjudicatory body for the Transylvania County Department of Public Health. Its purpose is to promote health, prevent disease, and protect the public’s health set forth in Chapter 130A of the North Carolina General Statutes.

The Board of Health consists of eleven members appointed by the Transylvania County Board of Commissioners. Its makeup includes a physician, a dentist, an optometrist, a veterinarian, a registered nurse, a pharmacist, a professional engineer, a county commissioner, and three representatives of the general public, all of whom must reside in Transylvania County. (If representatives of professional positions cannot be found, members of the general public may be appointed instead.) Each member serves a three-year term, and no member may serve more than three consecutive terms. The County Commissioner member shall serve only as long as the member is a county commissioner.

The Transylvania County Board Health meets on the second Tuesday of every other month, starting at 6:00 pm. Meetings are held in the Community Services Building first floor large conference room, unless otherwise noted.

CURRENT BOARD OF HEALTH

Wiley Sim Cozart III DDS
W. David Guice

Heather “Dawn” Kauffman 
Benajah Lamm
PharmD
Albert J. “Jim” Lyday Jr.
 OD
Teresa McCall
Sandra G. McNeill
Teesie Stanton

MEETING MINUTES

CURRENT YEAR

February 14, 2022
April 11, 2022
June 13, 2022
August 8, 2022
October 10, 2022
December 12, 2022