Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences is home to many different centers and institutes which help advance the University's research, education and public service missions. Faculty members and students collaborate with other leading experts at USU's centers and institutes on projects that push incredible boundaries across manifold disciplines of biomedical science. Their work is shaping military medicine and world health in many positive, powerful ways.
Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP)
The Center for Deployment Psychology was developed to promote the education of psychologists and other behavioral health specialists about issues pertaining to the deployment of military personnel.
As the duration and frequency of military deployments increase, service members and their families are faced with increasing behavioral health difficulties associated with or exacerbated by deployment. The Center for Deployment Psychology (CDP), an innovative Department of Defense training consortium, has been established to better meet the deployment-related mental and behavioral health needs of military personnel and their families. The CDP is a tri-service center funded by Congress to train military and civilian psychologists, psychology interns/residents and other behavioral health professionals to provide high quality deployment-related behavioral health services to military personnel and their families.
Center for Global Health Engagement (CGHE)
The Center for Global Health Engagement (CGHE) was formally established at USU by the Defense Appropriations Act of 1999. Organized within the Department of Military and Emergency Medicine at USU, CGHE is postured as the Defense Department's focal point for academic aspects of medical stability operations.
Center for Health Disparities (CHD)
The Uniformed Services University Center for Health Disparities (USUCHD) in collaboration with the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), is a non-profit organization newly funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD). This grant is administered by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the advancement of the Military Medicine.
Center for Neuroscience & Regenerative Medicine (CNRM)
The Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine was established as a collaborative intramural federal program involving the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and the National Institutes of Health developed to bring together the expertise of clinicians and scientists across disciplines to catalyze innovative approaches to traumatic brain injury (TBI) research.
Center for Prostate Disease Research (CPDR)
The Center for Prostate Disease Research is the only free-standing prostate cancer research center in the U.S. This 20,000 square foot state-of-the-art basic science laboratory facility is attracting the best and brightest to study the disease. Using blood and tissues collected from volunteering military beneficiaries, the CPDR laboratory has amassed a large bank of prostate cancer specimens that are serving to unravel the genetics of the disease.
Center for Rehabilitation Sciences Research (CRSR)
The Center for Rehabilitation Sciences Research (CRSR) was established to advance the rehabilitative care for service members with combat-related injuries, particularly those with orthopedic trauma, limb loss and neurological complications. The goal of CRSR is to support synergistic research projects within the Military Healthcare System (MHS) to enhance new discovery and optimize rehabilitation strategies to promote successful recovery, return to duty and community reintegration of military beneficiaries. The CRSR works directly with other DoD/VA Centers of Excellence to provide a unique platform for fostering innovative research by incorporating advanced technology, partnering with industry and academic institutions, and disseminating knowledge to the future leaders of military medicine.
Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS)
As part of the Department of Psychiatry of our federal medical school, USU, CSTS was established in 1987 as a public private partnership of USU and the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine. The center’s approach integrates science, clinical care, community needs and the health of the nation. Its team is multi-disciplinary with expertise in disaster psychiatry, military medicine and psychiatry, social and organizational psychology, neuroscience, family violence, workplace preparedness and public education.
Consortium for Health and Military Performance (CHAMP)
The Center’s work addresses a wide scope of trauma exposure from the consequences of combat, operations other than war, terrorism, natural and humanmade disasters, and public health threats. CSTS is a part of our nation’s federal medical school, USU, and its Department of Psychiatry, as well as a partnering center of the newly established Defense Centers of Excellence (DCOE) for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury.
Defense & Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management (DVCIPM)
The Defense and Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management was established in 2003 and formally moved to USU in 2013. The DVCIPM is organized within the USU Department of Military and Emergency Medicine (MEM) and supports Tri-Service and Veterans Health Administration collaborations in clinical practice, research and education.
Human Performance Resource Center (HPRC)
HPRC is aligned under Force Health Protection and Readiness and is the educational arm of the Consortium for Health and Military Performance (CHAMP) at USU. The HPRC can help you on your quest for total fitness and performance optimization.
Infectious Disease Clinical Research Program (IDCRP)
Our mission is to conduct infectious disease clinical research of importance to the military through a unique, adaptive, and collaborative network, to inform health policy and practice and disseminate findings in peer reviewed literature
Murtha Cancer Center
The Institute is a component of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU). USMCI is headquartered at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and has components at USU, the National Naval Medical Center, the Malcolm Grow Air Force Medical Center, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute. The Military Cancer Institute is being incorporated into the Comprehensive Cancer Center at year end.
National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH)
The National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH) is an academic center tasked with leading federal, and coordinating national, efforts to develop and propagate core curricula, education, training and research in all-hazards disaster health. It was established in 2008 by Homeland Security Presidential Directive-21 as a Center of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and receives additional program support from the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine.
By establishing core curricula and competencies in disaster medicine and public health education, the NCDMPH will better prepare the nation to respond to natural and man-made disasters or other catastrophic public health events.
Surgical Critical Care Initiative (SC2I)
The Surgical Critical Care Initiative (SC2i) is a USU research program established in October 2013 to develop, translate, and validate biology-driven critical care. SC2i largely builds upon legacy efforts to provide care that is centered on an individual patient’s biology and oriented to both long and short term outcomes.
To realize its vision, SC2i draws considerable expertise from the premier academic centers and research-focused organizations which form its core: Uniformed Services University of Health, Duke University, Emory University–Grady Memorial Hospital, the Naval Medical Research Center, the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, and Decision Q.
Facilitating tissue acquisition and data analysis for improved decision-making algorithms are SC2i's principal focuses. Once validated, it is expected these efforts will subsequently lead to the rapid integration of these data streams into clinical practice, maximizing outcomes across any discipline requiring complex medical decision-making, including surgery, critical care, emergency medicine, orthopedics, transplant, and oncology. Approaches developed by SC2i are expected to simultaneously improve the quality and reduce the cost of care in critically-ill patients, for the benefit of both military and civilian healthcare systems.
Tri-Service Center for Oral Health Studies (TSCOHS)
The Tri-Service Center for Oral Health Studies (TSCOHS), a service of the Postgraduate Dental College, is chartered by the Department of Defense TRICARE Management Activity (TMA) to provide research and data collection services relating to the provision of dental care to all beneficiaries in the Department of Defense. The Center provides consultative services to students and other faculty in the Uniformed Services University regarding oral health research topics, general dental and oral health subjects, and data sources relating to dental care in the military.
TriService Nursing Research Program (TSNRP)
TSNRP is the only program funding and supporting rigorous scientific research in the field of military nursing. We seek to advance military nursing science and optimize the health of military members and their families.
