OEHE Environmental Health Services
The Division of Environmental Health Services (DEHS) is one of 3 programs that make up the Office of Environmental Health and Engineering for the Great Plains Area, Indian Health Service, Office of Public Health.
DEHS is comprised of Sanitarians, Environmental Health Specialists, Environmental Health Technicians, Institutional Environmental Health Officers, Injury Prevention Specialists & support staff. The DEHS leadership and staff provide environmental health consultation to The American Indian tribal governments and Indian Health Service programs within the Great Plains Area (North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska and Iowa).
DEHS provides a wide variety of public health services and is divided into 3 program areas: General Environmental Health, Community Injury Prevention, and Institutional Environmental Health.
Director
CAPT Christopher W. Allen, RS
Phone: 605-226-7597
Email: chris.allen@ihs.gov
Environmental Health
CAPT Aubrey C. Smelley
Safety Officer
Infection Control Coordinator
Phone: 605-226-7605
Injury Prevention Coordinator
Phone: 605-226-7597
Pierre District Office
District Sanitarian
420 S. Garfield, Suite 200
Pierre, SD 57501
Phone: 605-945-5071
Fax: 605-224-1704
Services for the following:
- Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Environmental Health Program
- Pine Ridge Service Unit Environmental Health Program
- Fort Thompson Service Unit Environmental Health Program
- Lower Brule Service Unit Environmental Health Program
Sioux City District Office
District Sanitarian
320 6th Street
Room 212, Box 19
Sioux City, IA 51101
Phone: (712) 252-3988
Fax: (712) 252-4482
Services for the following:
- Winnebago Tribal Environmental Health Program
- Omaha Tribal Environmental Health Program
- Santee Tribal Environmental Health Program
- Rosebud Service Unit Environmental Health Program
- Wagner Service Unit Environmental Health Program
- Sisseton Service Unit Environmental Health Program
- Woodrow Wilson Keeble Memorial Health Care Center
- Flandreau Service Unit Sanitarian
Minot District Office
CDR Molly Curry, RS
District Sanitarian
100 1st St. SW
Room 302
Minot, ND 58701
Phone: (701) 852-0250
Fax: (701) 839-2410
Services for the following:
- Quentin N. Burdick Memorial Health Care Environmental Health Program
- Three Affiliated Tribes Environmental Health Program
- Trenton Tribal Environmental Health Program
- Spirit Lake Health Administration - Environmental Health Program
- Standing Rock Tribal Environmental Health Program
