The U.S. Army Public Health Command is the Army Medical Command organization at the forefront of Army Medicine’s renewed focus on preventing disease and injury, and building and sustaining the good health of Soldiers and retirees, their families, and Army civilians. This focus is incorporated in our mission and vision statements:
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Mission: 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.
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Vision: World-class provider of public health services across the Department of the Army and Department of Defense.
The Public Health Command is also the Army’s go-to organization for many of the building blocks of Army Medicine’s mission of prevention. Army Medicine looks to the Public Health Command for these and many other services:
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Identification of diseases, epidemics and spikes in medical conditions that signal the need for medical intervention;
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Injury prevention;
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Analysis of the factors that contribute to suicide, PTSD and other conditions resulting from 10 years of overseas contingencies.
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Monitoring, mitigating and archiving environmental health risks;
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Evaluation of occupational exposures in our workplaces;
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Safety of food and water on installations and in deployed environments;
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Education and promotion of healthy lifestyle changes.
Prevention, proactive health promotion, and partnership with those whose goals and capabilities complement our own are force multipliers. The Public Health Command will continue to be a force multiplier through these means. We will strengthen our reputation of excellence and keep our eyes fixed on the Army values that sustain our service delivery: courage, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity and loyalty to our mission, to each other and to those we support.
—MG Jimmie O. Keenan