The mission of the organization is to promote health and prevent disease, injury, and disability of Soldiers and military retirees, their Families, and Department of the Army civilian employees; and assure effective execution of full spectrum veterinary service for Army and Department of Defense Veterinary missions.
The USAPHC brings both breadth and depth of knowledge to its Army and Department of Defense customers. Its people are experts in approximately 60 scientific and technical disciplines. They include preventive and occupational medicine physicians, public health and occupational health nurses, epidemiologists, industrial hygienists, veterinarians, food safety and quality assurance experts, entomologists, physicists, chemists, toxicologists, engineers, environmental scientists, biologists, ergonomists, nuclear medicine experts, health physicists, physical therapists, audiologists, health educators, behavioral health professionals, geologists, meteorologists and more.