
REGION J serves the following GA counties:
Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Candler, Chatham, Effingham, Evans, Glynn, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, Screven, Tattnall, Toombs.
Healthcare Coalition Coordinator: Jimmy Gordon
Healthcare Coalition Facilitator: Susan Malone




Coalitions provide a space to collaborate and support other members during disaster response and recovery. The time to get to know one another is now. Take the first step!


Get information about the public health response to the hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship in the Atlantic.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in conjunction with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), is issuing this Health Advisory to notify public health professionals, clinicians, laboratorians, and people at risk for overdose about increasing reports from U.S. jurisdictions detecting medetomidine in the illegal drug supply and a severe withdrawal syndrome…

The Georgia Department of Health (DPH) is alerting healthcare providers to a detection of measles found in sewage samples through routine wastewater testing. The positive samples were collected on Sunday March 29, 2026, from a wastewater treatment plant in the South Metro Atlanta Area, Georgia.