Navy Public Health Nurse Returns from Pacific Partnership Mission in Tonga

NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga – Cmdr. Christina Carter, a public health nurse currently serving as Director for Public Health at Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms and Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Twentynine Palms, recently returned from a temporary assignment to the Kingdom of Tonga in...

20 July 2025

Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences Alumni Support Pacific Partnership 2025

NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga -- During their stop in the Kingdom of Tonga, the Pacific Partnership 2025 (PP-25) medical team, consisting of U.S. Navy, Army, Public Health Service and Tongan Ministry of Health personnel, conducted over 30 community health engagements in the fields of One Health, cardiology,...

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