Public Health and Surveillance

PUBLIC HEALTH AND SURVEILLANCE

Threat Assessment

The Threat Assessment Department helps the Navy and Marine Corps maintain readiness and avoid preventable illness at home and on deployment. NEPMU-6 studies health risks in Asia and the Pacific and pass that information back to you and your command in the form of preventive measures you can use to avoid illness. Our services include the following:

• Force Health Protection Guidance
  We provide consultation for deployers traveling in the PACOM AOR. If you have questions please contact us at usn.jbphh.navenpvntmedusixhi.list.nepmu6-threat-assessment@health.mil.(Note:Please DO NOT provide specific names or PII on your email).
  • PACOM Force Health Protection Guidance


• Outbreak Investigation
  If your unit is experiencing any increase in disease incidence, please contact us at 808-471-0237 or usn.jbphh.navenpvntmedusixhi.list.nepmu6-threat-assessment@health.mil for assistance.(Note: Please DO NOT provide specific names or PII on your email).
  • MCM 0028-07 Procedures for Deployment health surveillance, 02 Nov 07
  • USCINCPAC Instruction 6200.2: Force Health Protection (FHP) Program for Deployments
  • Travel Medicine Clinic - Offering health advice to travelers
  • CDC's website on traveler's health
• Microbiology Lab Services
  NEPMU-6 operates one of three NEPMU microbiology labs managed by NMCPHC. These labs have garrison and mobile laboratory technology to support epidemiological investigations of biological threats to include bioterrorism, infectious disease outbreaks, and other public health emergencies. The primary service is to maximize the mission readiness of operational forces in the Pacific theater through environmental and diagnostic testing to include:

• Stool and blood parasite microscopy
• Viral pathogen molecular testing (e.g. bioterror agents, Influenza, Norovirus)
• Culture based bacterial ID and antibiotic susceptibility testing

The laboratory can acquire, as needed, specialized diagnostics not normally available in the United States (e.g., Dengue virus). The laboratory is also prepared to expedite the acquisition, packaging and shipping of appropriate specimens to higher level military and civilian reference laboratories as appropriate.