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Proclamation 10363 of April 1, 2022 

National Public Health Week, 2022 

By the President of the United States of America 

A Proclamation 

Each year, National Public Health Week provides a chance for all of us 

to come together to restore and strengthen the public health of our Nation. 

As we have seen so starkly over the past 2 years, public health is essential 

to every part of our National life—not only to the safety and well-being 

of our families and communities but also to our prosperity. This week, 

we celebrate the progress we have made to revitalize our public health, 

recommit ourselves to the work that still remains, and recognize all of 

the remarkable health care workers and public health professionals whose 

extraordinary sacrifice and courage on the front lines have carried our Nation 

through one of the most difficult periods in our history. 

Thanks to our brave and dedicated public health and health care workforce, 

the resilience of the American people, and our comprehensive strategy to 

tackle COVID–19, our Nation is far better positioned today than we were 

a year ago. Vaccines and boosters have been proven to offer the highest 

level of protection—and today, more than 250 million Americans have 

stepped up to protect themselves and their communities by getting at least 

one shot, saving more than a million American lives. We are ready with 

millions of antiviral treatments that reduce your chance of ending up in 

the hospital by 90 percent. We are continuing to vaccinate the world, having 

sent over half a billion vaccine doses to 114 countries with more to come. 

My Administration has made hundreds of millions of tests available for 

Americans to order directly to their homes for free. We have successfully 

reopened schools and businesses across the country, most Americans can 

now go safely mask-free, and together we are moving forward safely back 

to more normal routines. We have positioned ourselves well to detect and 

prepare for new variants and have more tools to protect people than ever 

before—but making sure these tools are readily available requires additional 

funding from the Congress. We urgently need the Congress to provide the 

funding we have requested to maintain our preparedness against COVID– 

19 and ensure the American people continue to have access to treatments, 

vaccines, and tests. The consequences of inaction are severe and immediate, 

and they will only get more significant over time. 

While COVID–19 remains a top public health priority, we are committed 

to a full range of efforts to improve the Nation’s general health, safety, 

and resilience. Last year, through the American Rescue Plan and other 

actions, we expanded access to—and lowered the cost of—quality health 

care for millions of Americans. In addition, we made new investments 

in mental health services; innovative health care technologies; our public 

health and health care workforce; and maternal, infant, and early childhood 

programs. Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we are also helping 

to address long-standing health inequities that have burdened communities 

of color and low-income neighborhoods for far too long. Because of this 

law, we are beginning to replace poisonous lead pipes so that every child, 

in every home and school in America, finally has clean water to drink. 

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speed internet to every single community in the country, we are also making 

health care and telehealth services more accessible to each and every family. 

Of course, there is much more that we need to do to improve our public 

health and build a better America. As we continue our fight to defeat 

the pandemic, we must also continue to expand health coverage and lower 

the cost of health care for every family—including the cost of prescription 

drugs like insulin. We must make transformational investments in our climate 

resilience and continue to address dangerous environmental injustices that 

threaten public health and have hit communities of color the hardest. We 

must take commonsense steps to address the public health epidemic of 

gun violence, which disproportionately impacts Black Americans. We must 

come together to address the toll that the mental health epidemic takes 

on America’s children, deliver the physical and mental health care that 

our veterans and service members deserve, and make landmark investments 

to spark breakthroughs in our fight against cancer, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, 

and other diseases. 

During National Public Health Week, we recommit ourselves to reaching 

these goals—to improve our public health and, in so doing, improve our 

safety and security, our economic strength, the equity and fairness of our 

Nation, and our quality of life. Together, we share our appreciation to 

all those who safeguard the Nation’s public health through acts of service 

and those who seek to strengthen communities by fostering equitable opportunities for all. My Administration encourages all Americans to do their part 

for public health—especially by getting vaccinated and receiving a booster 

shot, if eligible. It takes all of us to preserve the health of our Nation, 

and together we are poised to make tremendous progress to build a better, 

stronger, and healthier America. 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States 

of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution 

and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 4 through 

April 10, 2022, as National Public Health Week. I call on all citizens, 

government agencies, private businesses, non-profit organizations, and other 

groups to take action to improve the health of our Nation. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of 

April, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-sixth. 

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