15 September 2025 Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command Epidemiologists Enhance Force Health Protection Through Improved Medical Surveillance Capabilities September 4, 2025 -- In a significant advancement for Navy public health, epidemiologists with the Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command (NMCFHPC) are revolutionizing how the fleet monitors illnesses at sea.The initiative harnesses the power of a biosurveillance tool known as the...
19 August 2025 Dozier Takes the Helm as Commanding Officer, Navy Drug Screening Laboratory Great Lakes – Leading Forensic Drug Testing Capabilities to Ensure Warfighter Readiness A time-honored naval tradition unfolded at the historic Bluejacket Memorial Chapel on board Naval Station Great Lakes as Cmdr. Katherine Dozier relieved Cmdr. Jason Schmittschmitt as commanding officer of Navy Drug Screening Lab Great Lakes (NDSL GL) August 12, 2025, Great Lakes, Illinois.The...
07 August 2025 Navy Industrial Hygienists Strengthen Blast Exposure Protections at Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane CRANE, Ind. -- Industrial hygienists from the Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command (NMCFHPC) returned to Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Crane July 22-24, 2025, to assess and support ongoing efforts to mitigate blast overpressure (BOP) exposure risk during weapons testing.The...
06 August 2025 Navy Medicine Industrial Hygiene Course Builds Global Readiness and Force Health Protection Capabilities SAN DIEGO, Calif. (July 29, 2025) – Thirteen students from Navy Medicine commands across the Pacific attended the Industrial Hygiene Techniques/Exposure Monitor Course (EMC), hosted by the Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command (NMCFHPC), in San Diego, California, July 14–25, 2025.The...
20 June 2025 Field-Tested Readiness: Navy Preventive Medicine Proves Expeditionary Capability in the Baltics While BALTOPS 25 brought the noise, jets roaring overhead, ships maneuvering through the Baltic Sea, a quieter mission unfolded behind the scenes.Navy preventive medicine teams, deployed across Latvia and Sweden, focused on something less visible but just as critical: ensuring nothing stopped the...
11 June 2025 Leadership Transition at Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command Strengthens Global Readiness PORTSMOUTH, Va. (June 6, 2025) – The Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command (NMCFHPC) and Defense Centers for Public Health – Portsmouth (DCPH-P) marked a pivotal leadership transition as Capt. Darryl Arfsten assumed command from Capt. Marion Gregg during a time-honored change of...
23 May 2025 Navy Public Health Team Leads the Way in Blast Exposure Strategy While Operating Side-by-Side with Sailors and Marines Recognizing a hazard that needs to be monitored is nothing new to those in the public health field because that’s what they do--identify, assess and control risks to protect population health, from infectious diseases and environmental exposures to occupational threats. The goal? To make operations...
20 May 2025 The Heartbeat Behind Healthcare: How Biomedical Technicians Keep Hospitals Running The Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command (NMCFHPC) plays a critical role in the biomedical field, an interdisciplinary area that applies the principals of biology, medicine, and engineering to develop technologies, treatments, and innovations that improve healthcare diagnostics, and...
25 March 2025 Forward Deployable Preventive Medicine Unit Boosts Readiness at Camp Lemonnier CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti – The Navy’s Forward Deployable Preventive Medicine Unit’s (FDPMU) play a vital role in sustaining mission readiness across the globe.Last year, Forward Deployable Preventive Medicine Unit (FDPMU) Industrial Hygiene (IH) component team conducted a survey at an indoor...
17 January 2025 Navy Bloodborne Infection Management Center Supports Force Health Protection Through Managing HIV Testing Contract SAN ANTONIO, Texas – Leadership staff with the Navy Bloodborne Infection Management Center (NBIMC) visited the Center for Disease Detection (CDD) laboratory in San Antonio, Texas, for a quarterly inspection on Dec. 11, 2024. The team from NBIMC, which manages the HIV testing contract for the...