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Medical surveillance and medical event reporting are vital activities for maintaining threat awareness and enabling timely, coordinated response at every level.
By understanding emerging health threats, we can strengthen Navy and Marine Corps readiness before exposure occurs and improve response efforts through targeted access to subject matter experts (SMEs) and essential resources. The Navy Environmental and Prevention Medical Units (NEPMUs) are the Preventive Medicine reach back support for the numbered fleet, training centers and NMRTCs with SMEs in medical surveillance, reporting, epidemiologic risk assessment, and outbreak response.
All Navy Medical Departments should know the health threats in their area of responsibility (AOR), the health of the forces they serve, and the baseline/expected rates of Disease and Non-Battle Injuries (DNBI) in order to detect unusual patterns or emerging concerns early. Below are key activities:
All Navy Medical Departments must report Reportable Medical Events (RMEs) that occur in their area of responsibility (AOR) within the Disease Reporting System internet (DRSi), as well as, to their chain of command and their local NEPMU. The cognizant NEPMU can ensure an adequate public health response is initiated. Reporters will use the latest version of the Armed Forces Reportable Medical Events: Guidelines and Case Definitions, maintained by AFHSD, which provides the list of DoD RMEs consolidated from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) lists of notifiable diseases, and events that military public health experts have identified as representing significant military threats
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery 7700 Arlington Blvd. Ste. 5113 Falls Church, VA 22042-5113 This is an official U.S. Navy website This is a Department of Defense (DoD) Internet computer system. General Navy Medical Inquiries (to Bureau of Medicine and Surgery): usn.ncr.bumedfchva.list.bumed---pao@health.mil