19 March 2024 Continuity of Care: Celebrating Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit FIVE’s 75th Anniversary March 10, 1949, marked a pivotal moment in Navy’s Medicine’s history when the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) orchestrated the consolidation of four World War II epidemiology teams into five dynamic Epidemic Disease Control Units, strategically positioned across the nation’s key locations in...
13 February 2024 Forward Deployable Preventative Medical Unit Enhances Combat Effectiveness with Comprehensive Weapons and Threat Recognition Training This year, the Forward Deployable Preventative Medical Unit (FDPMU) participated in a first ever Weapons and Threat Recognition Training Course, specifically designed and tailored for the unit’s unique mission. FDPMU’s are rapidly, deployable, and mobile units that support force health protection,...
13 December 2023 DARPA Cultivates the Scientist of Tomorrow Lt. Cmdr. Dan Xu, a biochemist with the Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit SEVEN (NEPMU-7), Rota, Spain, participated in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Service Chiefs’ Fellowship Program from July to September 2023.During her fellowship, Xu gained insight into the...