Environmental Health Surveillance Registries

The health of our Service men and women, DOD civilian personnel, and other DOD-affiliated individuals, including family members and contractors, is a top priority of the Department of Defense.

The Department of Defense's Force Health Protection Program was established to protect members of DOD from injuries and illness and to provide medical and rehabilitative care to those who become sick or injured anywhere in the world. A critical component of Force Health Protection is occupational and environmental health (OEH), which is focused on protecting individuals from hazardous physical, chemical, and biological agents in the air, water, and soil.

The DOD may establish an environmental health surveillance registry when: 1) occupational and environmental health exposures could cause illness, or 2) when the exposure is not expected to cause illness, but individuals need access to exposure data. In either case, these registries will contain the names of all the individuals who were known or believed to have been exposed along with estimates of their exposure.

Through this website, interested individuals will be able to learn more about why these registries were created and receive answers to any registry-related questions they may have.