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U.S. Army Public Health Command


The U.S. Army Public Health Command integrates the missions of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine and the U.S. Army Veterinary Command. USAPHC reached full operational capability on July 11, 2011 and VETCOM was inactivated on July 22, 2011.

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.

The USAPHC’s reach is global and its focus is local—its personnel serve on the ground in support of Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps installations; in medical treatment facilities and laboratories; and in deployed locations around the world.

The USAPHC includes a headquarters at Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD; an Army Institute of Public Health at Aberdeen Proving Ground; five public health regional commands, three in the continental United States and two overseas; and 14 public health districts. Through this structure, the USAPHC maintains responsibility and accountability for public health, overseeing installation-level public health policies, practices and procedures.

The health of DOD military and civilian personnel and government-owned animals is essential for readiness. Preventing conditions that threaten Soldier, civilian, family member and animal health is operationally sound, cost effective and certainly better for individual well-being than providing medical treatment for sick or injured patients. Prevention—the early identification and mitigation of health risks through surveillance, education, training, and standardization and implementation of best public health practices—is crucial to the military’s success. With its breadth and depth of expertise, the USAPHC is able to respond locally and project globally, providing an efficient mechanism of force health protection for Army and DOD assets around the world.

 

Related Links

MEDCOMExternal Link

USAPHC Information for Employees (AKO)External Link