Deployment & Environmental Health

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​The Army Public Health Center provides services and information pertinent to maintaining and improving environmental health on installations and in deployment locations. These services include information on environmental quality to include air quality, water quality, solid waste, medical waste, and operational noise hazards; field preventive medicine; environmental medicine; environmental surveillance and data archiving; health risk assessment; threat assessment; entomology and pest management, and health risk communication.

The Public Health Preparedness and Response Division (PHPR) is the conduit for all of APHC's subject matter expertise support to deployed and deploying public health personnel.  Please contact PHPR if you are deploying and would like assistance preparing for your public health mission or if you are already deployed and need assistance with environmental sampling and surveillance or any of the other subjects identified below.


IF YOU ARE DEPLOYED OR DEPLOYING CONTACT US:

Email: usarmy.apg.medcom-aphc.list.org-phcom-ppr@health​.mil

Phone: Commercial 410-436-7941 or DSN 312-584-7941

  

Subjects

Air Quality
Air Quality

Air quality is a broad discipline that covers both health effects and pollution prevention.

Environmental Medicine
Environmental Medicine

Environmental medicine refers to the military’s efforts to assess health impacts associated with potential exposures to substances or mixtures of contaminants such as in air, water, soil or surfaces, present in deployment or garrison settings.

Environmental Noise
Environmental Noise

Information on assessing and managing noise impacts generated by military operations.

Field Preventive Medicine
Field Preventive Medicine

Information for field preventive medicine units on countering environmental, occupational and disease health threats.

Groundwater
Groundwater

Information on identifying and evaluating the impact of known or potential releases of hazardous constituents to the soil or groundwater and the evaluation of solid waste management practices and facilities.

Oil Spills
Oil Spills

Oil spill response workers may encounter many health and safety hazards.

Surface and Storm Water
Surface and Storm Water

Information on surface water and storm water quality management at fixed and field activities.

Wastewater
Wastewater

Information on wastewater quality management at fixed and field activities.