Pacific Partnership has returned to the Solomon Islands to continue the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific region on Nov. 18, 2023.

Team members with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity completed a field operational assessment on Nov. 5, 2023, at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, testing the field-worthiness of the Prolonged Care Augmentation Detachment medical equipment set.

Two years after its inaugural 1993 class, the Navy’s Military Tropical Medicine program took on a tri-service mission, with a hallmark structure of four weeks of in-person didactic followed by two weeks in tropical infectious disease endemic locations. In 2020, the course momentarily halted international rotations due to travel restrictions and ...

Navy Medicine marked a milestone during a global health engagement with Egyptian Naval Forces to achieve interoperability and increase patient survivability in a shipboard setting within U.S. Central Command area of operations in support of exercise Bright Star 2023, Sept. 9-13.

The Department of Defense (DOD) recognizes that global health and security are linked, and our global health engagement (GHE) efforts address the intersection of these concerns. In addition to ensuring force health protection and medical readiness, DOD GHE efforts also address other DOD and U.S. government (USG) priorities. These include enhancing ...

On October 15 United States Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (USNMRTC) Yokosuka, Government of Japan, Japanese Self Defense Force (JSDF) Ground and Maritime branches, United States Army and United States Air Force tested interoperability while cementing partnership by participating in Big Rescue Kanagawa.

U.S. Indo-Pacific partnership is key to handling health security risks, DOD’s Smith tells international conference.

U.S. military members from Kismayo, Somalia, partnered with the Kenya Defence Forces and Somali National Army Danab Forces to bring medical supplies and treatment to a local village as part of a medical civic action program clinic on July 1, 2023, in Dolsan Village, Somalia.

Pacific Partnership 2023 has concluded its mission stop in Kuantan, Malaysia, during a closing ceremony hosted aboard the Harpers-Ferry class dock landing ship at USS Pearl Harbor on Sept. 15, 2023.

Fifteen New York Army National Guard medics and physician assistants traveled to Brazil to participate in South America’s largest military humanitarian response exercise, Aug. 12-18.

The U.S. Navy’s Expeditionary Medical Facility Juliet completed 61 orthopedic procedures during its first orthopedic surgical partnership mission with Honduran health care professionals. The effort was conducted at the Level 1 Hospital Escuela in the U.S. Southern Command, Aug. 14-18, 2023.

U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa Force Surgeon held an operational entomology event in support of the Africa Malaria Task Force, July 17-21, in Accra, Ghana. The event brought together more than 70 representatives from 15 African partner nations and focused on the emerging threat of the invasive malaria-causing species in Africa.

In case of a natural disaster, one of the most important preparations is to ensure you and your family have your prescription drugs and access to health care services. When the government issues a state of emergency, TRICARE may temporarily change its procedures to ensure that you receive timely medical care.

Members of the U.S. Army’s 18th Medical Command arrived in Australia to support Exercise Talisman Sabre 2023 this week.

Expeditionary Medical Facility Kilo successfully completed its Operational Readiness Evaluation. The focus of the ORE held in Camp Pendleton, California was testing the command’s ability to stand up a fully functional field hospital, capable of operating when deployed at any location around the world.