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Frequently Requested Phone Numbers 

The Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Section of the San Francisco Department of Public Health receives clinician reports or legally reportable diseases and conditions. For all other reporting, concerns, and for clinical services call the numbers below:

Animal Bite Reporting
Animal Care & Control, (415) 554-9422 or 24-hour emergency dispatch, (415) 554-9400

Bat Concerns
Animal Care & Control 24-hour emergency dispatch, (415) 554-9400

Dead Bird Testing for West Nile Virus
California Department of Health Services, (877) WNV-BIRD (968-2473)

HIV Testing Services
Anonymous/Confidential HIV Testing & Counseling Services, (415) 502-TEST (8378)

Mosquito Control Problems
Environmental Health Services, (415) 252-3806

Needlestick Hotline (Consultation for clinicians, post-exposure prophylaxis hotline)
(888) 448-4911

Restaurant Sanitation Complaints
Environmental Health Services (415) 252-3800

Sewage Leak
Environmental Health Services, (415) 252-3800

Sexually Transmitted Disease Testing and Reporting
STD Clinic, (628) 217-6653

Suspected Food Poisoning Reporting (less than 4 people ill)
Environmental Health Section, (415) 252-3895

Travel Immunizations
Adult Immunization Clinic, (415) 554-2625

Tuberculosis (TB) Reporting
TB Clinic, (628) 206-8524 or After Hours, (415) 554-3613

Unsanitary Living Conditions
Environmental Health Services, (415) 252-3805

311, City Services Directory
311 Customer Service Center, 3-1-1

Service-specific Clinics

Specialized clinical services are provided by the San Francisco Department of Public Health at the following sites:

  • Adult Immunization Clinic: (415) 554-2625
  • HIV Post-exposure Prophylaxis, San Francisco City Clinic: (415) 487-5538
  • San Francisco City Clinic, STD Clinic: (628) 217-6653
  • Tuberculosis Clinic, TB Control Section: (628) 206-8524

Primary care sites – Community Health Centers

Community health centers in San Francisco provide services at reduced prices or on a sliding scale for their current patients only. If you want to enroll as a new patient at one of these clinics, call 311 for more information or visit Healthy San Francisco.

  • Children’s Health Center at SFGH
  • Curry Senior Center
  • Family Health Center at SFGH
  • General Medical Clinic at SFGH
  • Castro – Mission Health Center
  • Chinatown Public Health Center
  • Maxine Hall Health Center
  • Ocean Park Health Center
  • Potrero Hill Health Center
  • Silver Avenue Family Health Center
  • South of Market Health Center
  • Southeast Health Center
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  • Tom Waddell Health Center
  • Transgender Clinic
  • Women’s Health Center
  • Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic
  • Lyon – Martin Women’s Health Services
  • Mission Neighborhood Health Center
  • Native American Health Center
  • St. Anthony Free Clinic

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CMR Forms

Medical providers: download the Confidential Morbidity Report (CMR) form to report a communicable disease

CMR Form

or download the COVID-19 CMR form to report COVID-19 hospitalizations, deaths and POC testing by HCPs

COVID-19 CMR Form

Medical Provider Health Alerts

December 21, 2022

CDPH Health Advisory: Lower Barriers to Prescribing COVID-19 Therapeutics to Mitigate Impact of COVID-19

December 09, 2022

Health Update: Expanded Mpox Vaccination Recommendations

November 23, 2022

Health Advisory for SF Providers: Influenza and Respiratory Virus Season 2022–23

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