Ministry of Health (Rhodesia)

{{Infobox government agency|agency_name=Ministry of Health of Rhodesia|type=Department|nativename=|nativename_a=|nativename_r=|seal=File:Coat of arms of Rhodesia.svg|seal_width=175px|seal_caption=Coat of arms of Rhodesia|logo=|logo_width=175px|logo_caption=|picture=|picture_caption=|formed={{Start date and years ago|1965|11|11}}|date1=|date1_name=|date2=|date2_name=|preceding2=|dissolved={{Start date and years ago|1979|06|01}}|superseding=|jurisdiction=|headquarters=Salisbury, Salisbury Province|coordinates=|employees=|budget=|chief1_name=|chief1_position=|parent_agency=|child1_agency=|child2_agency=|keydocument1=|website=|footnotes=|parent_department=|chief2_name=|chief2_position=|chief3_name=|chief3_position=|chief4_name=|chief4_position=|chief5_name=|chief5_position=|chief6_name=|chief6_position=|chief7_name=|chief7_position=|chief8_name=|chief8_position=|chief9_name=|chief9_position=|succession=Ministry of Health and Child Care (Zimbabwe)}}The Ministry of Health was a government ministry of Southern Rhodesia first established in 1948, with the establishment of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland the responsibility for health was a federal responsibility from 1954 to 1963.{{cite web|url=http://ir.uz.ac.zw/jspui/bitstream/10646/3684/1/Willson_Holders_of_Administrative_and_Ministerial_office_1894_1964.pdf|title=Holders of Administrative and Ministerial Office 1894-1964|author=F. M. G. Willson and G. C. Passmore|website=University of Zimbabwe Library|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801222611/http://ir.uz.ac.zw/jspui/bitstream/10646/3684/1/Willson_Holders_of_Administrative_and_Ministerial_office_1894_1964.pdf|archive-date=1 August 2020}} The ministry returned to Southern Rhodesia from 1963 with the end of the Federation and then Rhodesia from the country's self-proclaimed independence in 1965 to 1979, when the country transitioned from white minority rule to the multiracial democracy of Zimbabwe.