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Navy Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) are public health specialists who focus on prevention and control of diseases in Navy and Marine Corps populations. EHOs are assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Commands (NMRTCs), Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs), Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Units (NEPMUs), hospital ships and Marine Corps Medical Battalions. EHOs also providevpublic health guidance and expertise when assigned to support an Expeditionary Medical Facility (EMF) or other operational ground force assets.

Navy Environmental Health Officers support Force Health Protection and Readiness by:
  • Performing food safety and sanitation services to mitigate food-borne illness
  • Performing water quality surveillance and testing to reduce the incidence of water-borne illness
  • Assessing thermal stress and providing guidance mitigate operational impact
  • Providing public health expertise as Public Health/Assistant Public Health Emergency Officers (PHEO/APHEO)
  • Providing epidemiological support and conducting contact tracing during outbreak investigations or public health emergencies
  • Providing guidance to Commanding Officers, Joint Force Commanders, and Installation Commanders on food safety and sanitation, water and wastewater management and quality, communicable disease control, and other public health concerns
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (March 21, 2022) – Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Joey Mei, assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Pearl Harbor, conducts a preoperational health inspection of food vendors at the Navy Exchange Mall. Military preventive medicine teams conducted the inspections because the food vendors were closed for over 30 days. The U.S. Navy is working closely with the Hawaii Department of Health, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army to restore safe drinking water to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam housing communities through sampling and flushing, and the recovery of the Red Hill Well. For detailed information, go to: www.navy.mil/jointbasewater. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Christopher Thomas)
For more information about the Environmental Health Community, please email: 
usn.ncr.bumedfchva.list.msc-environmentalhealth@health.mil
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