U.S. Army Public Health Center (Provisional)

The United States Army Public Health Center (APHC) is a United States Army element headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, United States.^[1] As a major subordinate command of the United States Army Medical Command, APHC is responsible for providing technical support and expertise in the areas of preventive medicine, public health, health promotion, and wellness to military units around the globe.^[2]

The Maryland Office of ORAU and Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE)^[3] administers research participation programs for USAPHC.^[4]

John Resta serves as the director.^[5]

History

The Army Industrial Hygiene Laboratory (AIHL) was founded in 1942 at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health under the direct jurisdiction of the Surgeon General of the United States Army.^[6] It was charged with conducting occupational health surveys of Army-operated industrial plants, arsenals, and depots. In October 1945, AIHL was transferred to what is now Aberdeen Proving Ground - South. From 1940 to 1960, AIHL's mission and personnel continued to expand, and AIHL became the U.S. Army Environmental Hygiene Agency (USAEHA).

In 1973, USAEHA became a subordinate command of the U.S. Army Health Services Command (the latter later became the United States Army Medical Command). The following year, USAEHA was given command of the health and environmental resources of the Army medical laboratories. These assets became USAEHA subordinate commands.

In 1994, USAEHA was re-designated as the United States Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine.^[7] In addition to its continental United States regional commands, USACHPPM also had two subordinate commands. In 1995, USACHPPM Europe was activated in Landstuhl, Germany, and USACHPPM Pacific was activated, moving in 1997 to Camp Zama, Japan.

In 2010, the center was merged with the United States Army Veterinary Command (VETCOM) to form USAPHC.^[8] VETCOM supported almost 500 DOD installations worldwide and included the DOD Veterinary Food Analysis and Diagnostic Laboratory and the DOD Military Working Dog Veterinary Service. USAPHC had six subordinate elements: the Army Institute for Health and five regional commands located at Fort George G. Meade in Maryland; Joint Base San Antonio in Texas; Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington; Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany; and Camp Zama in Japan. USAPHC's mission was to promote health and prevent disease, injury, and disability of Soldiers and retirees, their Families, and Army civilians, and to provide veterinary medicine services for the Army and Department of Defense. USAPHC also provided consulting services to senior military leaders, commanders both deployed and in garrison, and military medical and health professionals.^[9]

In 2015, USAPHC was renamed the Army Public Health Center (Provisional) as part of an overall Army Medical Command reorganization. The intent of the reorganization is to support the requirements of the MEDCOM and better support our mission of promoting health and preventing disease and injury in our beneficiaries. The goal is to create a single point of accountability for health readiness at each Regional Health Command.

The Army Medical Command’s realignment supports the Army’s current operations and global engagements. The reorganization will help support the Surgeon General's System for Health by making access to public health services locally accessible.

The new Army Public Health Center has the same parent organization (Army Medical Command) as before and offers the same range of services in each region. The public health mission does not change; remaining health promotion and disease/injury prevention in Soldiers, retirees, their Families, Veterans, Army civilians and government-owned animals.

References

↑ About USAPHC
↑ USAPHC Command Information Sheet 1
↑ http://www.orau.org/maryland/
↑ ORAU
↑ http://phc.amedd.army.mil/organization/hq/pages/commandersmessage.aspx "Colonel John V. Teyhen: Commander's Biography"
↑ About USAPHC
↑ USAPHC Command Information Sheet 2
↑ "Creation of the U.S. Army Public Health Command"
↑ About USAPHC

External links

United States Army Medical Command

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Category:United States Army

Leadership

Army Medical Department

Officers	Medical Corps Nurse Corps Dental Corps Veterinary Corps Medical Service Corps Medical Specialist Corps

Enlisted	Enlisted medical soldiers

Major Subordinate Commands

Regional commands	North Atlantic RMC Southeast RMC Great Plains RMC Western RMC Europe RMC Pacific RMC

Others	AMEDD Center & School U.S. Army Dental Cmd U.S. Army Medical Research & Materiel Cmd U.S. Army Public Health Cmd U.S. Army Warrior Transition Cmd

Installations

Fort Sam Houston
Fort Detrick (with Forest Glen Annex)

Medical Centers
(MEDCENs)

Stateside	Brooke AMC Tripler AMC Eisenhower AMC Madigan AMC Womack AMC Beaumont AMC Carl R. Darnall AMC

Overseas	Landstuhl AMC

Medical Department Activities
(MEDDACs)

Hospitals	Bassett ACH Bayne Jones ACH Blanchfield ACH Brian Allgood ACH DeWitt ACH Evans ACH General Leonard Wood ACH Ireland ACH Irwin ACH Keller ACH Martin ACH McDonald ACH Moncrief ACH Reynolds ACH Weed ACH Winn ACH

Clinics	Bliss AHC Barquist AHC Bavaria MEDDAC DiLorenzo TRICARE HC Dunham AHC Fairfax FHC Fox AHC Guthrie MEDDAC Heidelberg MEDDAC Kimbrough ACC Kenner AHC Kirk AHC Lyster AHC Munson AHC Rader AHC Woodbridge AHC Camp Zama

Field medical units

Medical Commands	AR-MEDCOM 807th MCDS 3rd MCDS

Medical Groups	55th Med Gp 67th Med Gp

Medical Brigades	1st Med BDE 2nd Med BDE 5th Med BDE 8th Med BDE 30th Med BDE 32nd Med BDE 44th Med BDE 62nd Med BDE 65th Med BDE 176th Med BDE 139th Med BDE 307th Med BDE 330th Med BDE 332nd Med BDE 338th Med BDE 804th Med BDE

Combat Support Hospitals	10th CSH 14th CSH 21st CSH 28th CSH 31th CSH 47th CSH 48th CSH 75th CSH 115th CSH 121st CSH 212th CSH 228th CSH 256th CSH 325th CSH 328th CSH 345th CSH 349th CSH 352d CSH 396th CSH 399th CSH 405th CSH 452th CSH 801th CSH 865th CSH

Forward Surgical Teams	1st FST 2nd FST 8th FST 67th FST 102nd FST 126th FST 135th FST 160th FST 240th FST 250th FST 274th FST (ABN) 402nd FST 541th FST (ABN) 555th FST 624th FST 628th FST 629th FST 691st FST 745th FST 758th FST 759th FST (ABN) 772nd FST 848th FST 874th FST 909th FST 911th FST 912th FST 915th FST 932nd FST 933rd FST 934th FST 936th FST 945th FST 946th FST 947th FST 948th FST 1980th FST 1982nd FST

Education

Centers, schools, etc	AMEDD Center & School U.S. Army School of Aviation Medicine Borden Institute

Museums	National Museum of Health and Medicine AMEDD Museum

Courses	Captains Career Course Walter Reed Tropical Medicine Course Department of Defense Veterinary Pathology Residency

Products	Textbook of Military Medicine War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq

Research Institutes & Centers

Stateside	Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense (USAMRICD) U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research (ISR) U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM) U.S. Army Center for Environmental Health Research

Overseas	Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Science (AFRIMS) United States Army Medical Research Unit- Europe (USAMRU-E) U.S. Army Medical Research Unit-Kenya (USAMRU-K) Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP)

Historical

List of former United States Army medical units

Other

Walter Reed Health Care System
Military Vaccine Agency
Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care
U.S. Army Medical Information Technology Center (USAMITC)

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