Transcript Naval Medical Research Unit Two- Pacific

Naval Medical Research Unit - 2
Pacific
CAPT Gail Hathaway, MSC, USN
Commanding Officer
[email protected]
Infectious Threat for Military and Travelers to the Tropics
Vietnam, 1966
Vietnam, 1966 Korea
Naval Medical Research &
Development Organization
NAMRU Dayton
NAMRU-3 HQ Cairo, Egypt
NSMRL Groton
NAMRU- San Antonio
NMRC HQ Silver Spring
NAMRU-2 Pacific,
Pearl Harbor, HI
NHRC San Diego
NAMRU-2
Phnom Penh,
Cambodia
NAMRU-6 Iquitos, Peru
NAMRU-6 HQ Lima
NAMRU-3 Accra, Ghana
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Eight (8) Biomedical Research Laboratories
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Naval Medical Research Center
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Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory (NSMRL)
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Naval Medical Research Unit – Dayton (NAMRU-D)
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Naval Medical Research Unit -San Antonio (NAMRU-SA)
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Naval Health Research Center
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Three (3) Overseas Research Commands
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NAMRU-2 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
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NAMRU-3 Cairo Egypt
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NAMRU-6 Lima, Peru
NAMRU-2 Singapore
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Five major research thrust areas:
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Casualty Care and Management
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Casualty Prevention
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Healthy and Fit Force
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Undersea Medicine
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Infectious Disease
The Sun Never Sets on Navy Medical Research……..
Naval Medical Research Enterprise
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Navy Medicine
Support Command
Naval Medical
Research Center
NHRC
San Diego, California
NAMRU-D
Dayton, OH
NAMRU-SA
San Antonio, Texas
NSMRL
Groton, Connecticut
NAMRU-2
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
NAMRU-3
Cairo, Egypt
NAMRU-6
Lima, Peru
Identify infectious disease threats of military
and public health importance and develop
and evaluate interventions and products to
mitigate those threats.
Engage U.S. and foreign national militaries,
public and private health and research
agencies, non-governmental organizations
and academia
Enhance foreign agencies’ capacity to address
infectious disease threats of mutual interest
Support Combatant Commanders’ Theater
Security Cooperation Program
NAMRU-2 supports US interests in the Pacific Theater
and
advances diplomacy in the region
NAMRU-2 Current
Activities
Phnom Penh Field Lab
Singapore Liaison
Acute Febrile Illness
Surveillance
Avian Influenza Surveillance
Shigellosis Morbidity
Drug Resistant Malaria
Syndromic Disease
Surveillance
Influenza Like Illness Surv
Mosquito Mass Trapping
Equivalent Man-Hours Training by Country 2006-2010
(Total hours 794 hours)
Lao 284
Cambodia 180
Indonesia 330
NAMRU-2 Pacific Collaborative
Partnerships
• Collaborations and partnerships with governmental, nongovernmental, academic, and foreign and US agencies are
absolutely essential to NAMRU-2’s mission of conducting
quality scientific research on infectious disease threats of
military and public health importance.
• Collaborations assure quality scientific
research, ensure transparency of
NAMRU-2 activities in host countries,
help build capacity, supports US interests
in the Pacific Theater and advances diplomacy in the region.
Guiding Principles for
Collaborative Studies
Burden on health
Ability to improve
health
Infrastructure
Capabilities
sustainability
Capacity building
Technology transfer
income
NAMRU-2 Pacific Collaborative
Partnerships
• Studies are conducted with a variety of governmental, non-governmental,
academic, and foreign and US agencies.
• Established through relationships, proximity and interest in similar
research areas.
• Major program sponsors: Military Infectious Diseases Research Program
(MIDRP) & Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center – Global Emerging
Infections Surveillance and Response System (AFHSC - GEIS).
• Partnership agreements include:
– MOU’s/MOA’s established with government agencies.
– Interagency Agreements with CDC & DoS.
– Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADA) with industry & academic
partners.
• Studies are conducted in a host country only upon the country’s approval;
study protocols are approved through the host nation’s collaborators.
NAMRU-2 Pacific
Non-DoD Partners
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National Institute of Public Health (MoH) Cambodia
Duke University/National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School
Singapore Armed Forces (SAF)
Institut Pasteur du Cambodge, Phnom Penh
National Center for Laboratory and Epidemiology (MoH) Laos
Regional Emerging Diseases Intervention (REDI) Centre (Singapore)
Defense Medical and Environmental Research Institute (Singapore)
National Environment Agency (NEA) Singapore
National Center for Entomology, Parasitology and Malaria Control, Cambodia
U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Department of State (US Embassy Laos, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia)
Pigs
Duck
Swine
Manure
Collection
Pool
Broadening NAMRU-2 Navy Biomedical R&D Portfolio
Vector Control Studies
Wound Healing/Repair
FHP Support
Research & Surveillance
Bioengagement Exercise
Regional Training Workshops
SAF FDPMU Platform
Micro
Prev
Med
Rad
Logistics
Chem
Disease
Vector
Medical Effects of Ionizing Radiation