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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

Evaluation of the relationship between exposures to environmental contaminants and chemical releases to short term and long term health effects includes medical and epidemiological analyses.

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.

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.