Health issues affecting any community, instead of health issues of individuals, are addressed under the broad category “Public Health”. The WHO defines public health as organized measures (whether public or private) to prevent disease, promote health, and prolong life among the population as a whole. Its activities aim to provide conditions in which people can be healthy and focus on entire populations, not on individual patients or diseases. In short, Public health focuses on community health needs and not individual health needs. Public health issues range from global concerns to local community specific needs. In this note, we describe a few illustrative public health issues from various countries. We have highlighted individual rights, political issues, controversial issues, and health hazards. Public health laws, like any other laws, keep getting modified in order to address the changing needs of various communities. We therefore request the readers to follow public health debates in the media to be in touch with the subject.