ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS

Preventive Medicine Programs and Policy Support- Environmental Health Programs

As the recognized public health center of excellence within the Navy and Marine Corps, we provide environmental health expertise for public health risks for a wide range of programs, worldwide. We provide specialized guidance and consultation to Navy Environmental Preventive Medicine Units, the fleet, operational forces and shore based personnel.

Our team is staffed by environmental health officers and civilian environmental health specialists, who are credentialed as Registered Environmental Health Specialist or are working toward their credentials. Other support-staff include an epidemiologist and preventive medicine technicians. Together, we maintain expertise on topics that impact environmental health across the Navy and Marine Corps.

Our mission is to provide expertise and leadership to improve the value of environmental health programs by developing and proposing evidence-based standards.

Key Products and Service

• Food
• Living Spaces and Related Service Facilities
• Child Youth Program Facilities
• Swimming Pools
• Water
• Wastewater
• Field Preventive Medicine
• Ship Sanitation Control Program

• CDC Mpox Page
• WHO Mpox Page
• IHD Mpox Vaccine Resource Center
• DHA Mpox Guidance Update_5Sept2024

Clinical guidance, including recognition, management and clinical isolation guidance are generally covered by CDC: CDC Clinical Overview

Clinical management for Fleet medical personnel can be found in the NMCFHPC Fleet Mpox Medical Guidance

Clinical guidance for MTFs can be found in the DHA Mpox Guidance Update_5Sept2024

Currently, neither mpox testing nor treatment are readily available in a forward deployed operational setting. Units should identify suspected cases, isolate them, and move them for care at an MTF when operationally feasible.