Starting in the 1980s, posters corrected misinformation about HIV/AIDS and urged condom use. Roberts says that the link between design and public health extends beyond publicity campaigns.

A number of posters bearing the Ontario Public Health logo that popped up around Toronto on Monday are not just an elaborate April Fool's joke.

Australian public health information poster on the tiger mosquito and the grey 'night-biting' mosquito as carriers of disease (dengue, yellow fever and filaria), advising citizens to clean up ...