1935: Hygieia

CPHA logo from 1935 to 2006

Who is Hygieia? During its 25^th year, the Canadian Public Health Association introduced Hygieia – a distinctive circular seal that depicted the classical Greek goddess of health holding a medicine bowl with a snake coiling around her arm. Hygieia was the daughter of Asclepius, who in ancient Greek mythology was the goddess of health, cleanliness and sanitation. While her father was more directly associated with healing and medicine, Hygieia was associated with the prevention of disease and the promotion of good health, and her name was the source of the work “hygiene”. The snake was symbolic of the patient embodied with wisdom regarding taking medicine from the bowl. In 2007, a modern interpretation of Hygieia replaced the more classical one as CPHA’s logo.

CPHA logo lauched in 2007