A health fair is an educational and interactive event designed for outreach to provide basic preventive medicine and medical screening to people in the community or employees at work in conjunction with workplace wellness.
Health Fairs are advertised and promoted ahead of time by print media, radio, or television and are usually a one-day event.
Public Citizen said that HealthFair's "heavily promoted, community-wide cardiovascular health screening programs are unethical and are much more likely to do harm than good," and cited peer-reviewed evidence in support of their claims.
[3] In response, Terry Diaz, HealthFair's Chief Operating Officer, wrote, "Public Citizen is an organization dedicated to the creation of a single-payer system of healthcare called 'Medicare for All' which would be run and controlled by the government.
This is strikingly opposite to our mission of helping make healthcare consumer-driven, a private choice between a patient and his/her physician, free from government intervention.