Publications and Reports of the Surgeon General

The Surgeon General of the Public Health Service has focused the Nation's attention on important public health issues. Reports of the Surgeon General on the adverse health consequences of smoking triggered nationwide efforts to prevent tobacco use. Reports and other publications on nutrition, violence, and HIV/AIDS—to name but a few—have heightened America's awareness of important public health issues and generated major public health initiatives.

This collection includes Surgeon General reports from 2001 to the current time. Reports published prior to 2001 are available in the National Library of Medicine's Reports of the Surgeon General 1964-2000 collection.