![Tech. Sgt. Donny Aspiras gathers a sample of water from the “pit and pond” obstacle Sept. 15.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161019024128im_/http://health.mil/~/media/MHS/General%20Images/Health%20Readiness/DVIDS_1592909.ashx)
Vision
A cutting-edge, world-class Public Health capability that is lean, efficient, effective, forward leaning, strategically positioned to fully meet the MHS and Customer needs.
Mission
Our mission is to:
- Support the move from a health care system to a system of health by focusing on the prevention of disease, disability, and death in garrison and while deployed
- Create timely, standardized execution guidance, in collaboration with the Services
- Increase effectiveness and efficiencies (e.g., manpower and cost savings) through consolidation/re-engineering of functions
- Develop comprehensive portfolio management and DHA Public Health structure to best accommodate the integration and evolution of future product lines.
What We Do:
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7/18/2016
![Deer Tick](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161019024128im_/http://health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/tick.ashx?mw=120)
The Army Public Health Center provides a tick identification and testing service for DoD health clinics in the continental United States
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7/5/2016
![An animated zombie pandemic scenario helps students in the family nurse practitioner doctorate of nursing practice program at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences to understand key principles in responding to and understanding population health – the overall health of a group, be it a group of employees, a community, or entire nation. USHS graphic](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161019024128im_/http://health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/USUHSzombie.ashx?mw=120)
An animated zombie pandemic scenario helps students in the family nurse practitioner doctorate of nursing practice program at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences to understand key principles in responding to and understanding population health.
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6/1/2016
![Escherichia coli (E. coli) bacteria normally live in the intestines of people and animals.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161019024128im_/http://health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/colistin.ashx?mw=120)
The Department of Defense notified stakeholders that its Multidrug-resistant Organism Repository and Surveillance Network (MRSN) at the Walter Reed Institute of Research had identified the first colistin-resistant mcr-1 E. coli in a person in the United States
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5/19/2016
![The hospital ship USNS Mercy departs Naval Base San Diego in support of Pacific Partnership 2016. Pacific Partnership is in its 11th iteration and is the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Christopher Veloicaza)](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161019024128im_/http://health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/NEPMU5.ashx?mw=120)
A team of Public Health and Preventive Medicine experts began their five-month journey to conduct the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.
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4/4/2016
![Navy Lt. Cmdr Carey Collins, a dentist assigned to U.S. Naval Hospital, Yokosuka, Japan, conducts a basic dental screening on a child.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/web/20161019024128im_/http://health.mil/~/media/MHS/Photos/Kid%20dentist.ashx?mw=120)
Army Capt. James Thietten gives tips and guidelines on how parents can monitor and improve their children’s dental health
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