Force Health Protection: Inside AFHSC

Vision: To be the central epidemiological resource and a global health surveillance proponent for the U.S. Armed Forces

Mission: Provide timely, relevant, actionable, and comprehensive health surveillance information in order to promote, maintain, and enhance the health of military and military-associated populations

• Acquire, analyze/interpret, disseminate information, and recommend evidence-based policy
• Develop, refine, and improve standardized surveillance methods
• Serve as focal point for sharing health surveillance products, expertise, and information
• Coordinate a global program of militarily relevant infectious disease surveillance

The AFHSC has military service and federal liaison officers on staff who can negotiate requests for information or analysis. There are liaisons from each of the Department of Defense Armed Services-U.S. Army, Navy (covers requests from Coast Guard and Marine Corps), Air Force, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Homeland Security.

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