EACE's Global Health Engagement Division serves to build relationships with applicable national and international entities to maintain clinical readiness, enhance education, develop research partners and support efforts related to traumatic extremity injuries and amputations.

This page provides the social media policy for the Military Health System and TRICARE organizational and individual social media pages.

Immunization Tracking Systems (ITS)

PHCoE Suicide Risk Military service members’ lives are generally very different from the lives of civilians. Service members are subject to frequent relocations, overseas deployments, and stressful experiences related to combat and significant time away from their families. The Department of Defense and its partners continue to examine how various ...

More than 1 in 3 American adults qualify as obese. Effective weight management can help service members meet their readiness requirements, improve their mission performance, build long-term health, and maintain a positive body image. Identifying and maintaining a healthy weight also impacts many other health conditions that affect quality of life.

In this section, find information about several diseases including an overview of the disease and vaccine and important information about the vaccines.

The Defense Health Agency recognizes National Public Health Week 2023 from April 3-9. NPHW is an annual themed event sponsored by the American Public Health Association to build awareness and educates the public on various public health issues.

The MHS is committed to the long-term health and vitality of our nation’s warfighters, their families, retirees, and civilians. Part of maintaining readiness is preventing the onset of diseases and injuries that pose a threat to the Defense community. Prevention enhances the overall health, performance and availability of the force.

Many members of the Department of Defense community have asked about essential women’s health care services following the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. As Secretary Austin has made clear, the health and well-being of our Service members, the civilian workforce, and DOD families are top priorities for the ...

The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division introduces a new tool that makes it more efficient and effective to assemble health surveillance data. The HSE is a dynamic CAC-enabled mapping application that allows Geographic Combatant Commands to identify global health threats and disease outbreaks in near real time. And that helps GCCs protect the ...

While April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, its an important issue all year long. This is a call to action for individuals at all levels of the Department to use their personal strength to bolster prevention, increase reporting, and promote advocacy for a safer DOD Community. This toolkits includes messages for communicators and ...

This tri-service organization, located at Fort Sam Houston, Texas offers both resident and non-resident joint medical readiness training courses as well as professional medical programs in: Trauma Care, Burn Care, Disaster Preparedness, Humanitarian Assistance, and CBRNE.

Standing orders authorize nurses, pharmacists, and other appropriately trained healthcare personnel, where allowed by state law, to assess a patient’s immunization status and administer vaccinations according to a protocol approved by an institution, physician, or other authorized practitioner.

A central repository for clinical and policy guidance, training, and other resources for the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program.

As a division of the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center, GEIS strives to promote Global Health Security and Force Health Protection through support of civil-military efforts to prevent outbreaks, epidemics, and emergence of novel infectious disease threats.