Briefing to JESWG March 1415, 2002

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Briefing to JESWGMarch 14-15, 2002
DEPLOYMENT HEALTH SUPPORT

• Bill Shaughnessy

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ASD Health Affairs Force Health Protection
Objectives

• Accelerate Review of Requirement, Production, and
  Distribution of Vaccines
• Update Bioterrorism Countermeasures and
  Biological Warfare Threat Protection Plan
• Review and Validate Current Approach to
  Deployment Health and Joint Surveillance
• Renew Force Health Protection Goals and
  Objectives with Joint Staff and Services
• Review Process for Investigational New Drugs for
  use in Contingency Operations

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Deployment Health Support
To support and advise the Assistant Secretary of
Defense (Health Affairs) on deployment health
issues, we will Assess implementation of DoD
programs policy to protect the health of all
those involved in deployments Assess and assure
rapid integration of force health protection
lessons learned Actively conduct outreach
programs to keep service-members, their families,
veterans, service organizations and the American
public informed of DoD efforts to protect the
health of the force
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Deployment Health Support Issue Areas
Improve Force Health Protection and Medical
Readiness

• Deployment Health Surveillance
• Education Training
• Environmental Health
• Immunizations Medications
• Individual Assignments
• Medical Intelligence
• Medical Lessons Learned
• Medical Records
• Medical Research
• Reserve Components/Civilians
• Unit Locations

DoD Report Card Dr. Chu, Jun 2001
Improve Coordination, Communication and
Collaboration
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Environmental Health

• DHS Objective Enhanced awareness of and
  improvements to health protection in a deployed
  setting through world class environmental
  awareness, preventive medicine, and occupational
  safety
• FY 02 Measures/Timeline Better understanding
  and execution of environmental surveillance,
  preventive medicine, occupational health and
  safety policies, procedures and practices during
  the preparation for and the execution of
  deployments, and the documentation of
  environmental events affecting them
• Information Paper on Pentagon Attack
  Environmental Surveillance
• Gulf War Environmental-Related Lessons Learned
  Analyses
• Information Paper on Kosovo Environmental
  Surveillance
• Environmental Health System Overview Report
• FY 03 Safety Gap Analysis Environmental
  Protection Gap Analysis
• FY 04 Preventive Medicine Gap Analysis Report

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Environmental Health System Overview -- Phase 1
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Areas of Interest
Policy/ Doctrine/ Law Organizations/ People
Technology Program Effectiveness
JESWG
Planning/ Direction
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Environmental Health System Component
Review Determine current status by examining
areas of interest
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Data Collection
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Environmental Health System Overview -- Phase 2
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Iterative Process