FIGURE 2
Public Views Toward State Health Agencies, 2025

In general, do you feel mostly positive or mostly negative about your state public health department, or do you feel you don’t know enough to say?

Note: This survey is nationally representative of U.S. adults. Interviews were conducted in English and Spanish, from March 10-31, 2025, and among a sample of 3343 adults ages 18 or older in the United States. The margin of error at the 95% confidence interval is +/- 2% for the entire sample. Percentages may not add up to 100% due to rounding.
Figure last checked/updated on November 21, 2025.
Sources: De Beaumont Foundation and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2025.