This retrospective analysis describes active duty U.S. Army soldiers who died from 2014 to 2019, utilizing administrative data sources to calculate mortality rates, assess trends by category of death, and identify leading causes of death within subpopulations.

This report describes an investigation of a respiratory outbreak at the Armed Forces of the Philippines Health Service Education and Training Center by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research-Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences and Armed Forces of the Philippines Collaborative Molecular Laboratory, demonstrating a common source ...

This report summarizes the results and lessons from the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division Integrated Biosurveillance forecasts for the 2022-2023 respiratory illness forecasting season.

MSMR publishes a monthly reportable medical event update for the active component and Military Health System beneficiaries.

This report summarizes Military Heath System (MHS) data from 2019 through 2023 on the numbers, frequency, rates, trends, demographics, geographic locations, as well as military characteristics of exertional rhabdomyolysis among U.S. active component service members.

This report summarizes Military Heath System data from 2008 through 2023 on the numbers, frequency, rates, trends, demographics, geographic locations, as well as military characteristics of exertional hyponatremia among U.S. active component service members.

This report summarizes heat stroke and heat exhaustion case counts, incidence rates, and locations among U.S. active component service members from 2019 through 2023.

Since 2001, MSMR has published regular reports on the incidence of heat illness among U.S. active component service members. This annual update presents summaries of heat stroke and heat exhaustion case counts, incidence rates, and locations from 2019 through 2023.

This report provides a monthly updatea of Reportable Medical Events documented in the Disease Reporting System internet (DRSi) by health care providers and public health officials throughout the Military Health System. Reportable Medical Events are a critical tool for monitoring, controlling, and preventing the occurrence and spread of diseases of ...

Public health preparedness and response is a critical area of focus as Defense Public Health transitions some of the military component public health functions to the Defense Health Agency. This includes all-hazard biosurveillance and public health emergency management, or PHEM.

This study compared estimates of the prevalence of and risk factors for tobacco and nicotine use obtained from the 2018 Health Related Behaviors Survey and Periodic Health Assessment survey. The HRBS and the PHA are important Department of Defense sources of data on health behavior collected from U.S. military service members.

This study provides the first estimate of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis coverage in the U.S. military, defined as the proportion of the persons taking HIV PrEP out of the estimated number of persons who had indications for it, that is also comparable to U.S. civilian estimates. The population with indications for HIV PrEP was obtained from the ...

This Surveillance Snapshot presents a comparison of U.S. active component military and general population HIV incidence rates in 2021, the most recent year for which stratified U.S. data were available, using indirect standardization by sex, age, and race and ethnicity.