U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine
Other forms of name
CHPPM (U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine)
US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine
USACHPPM
United States. Department of the Army. U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 159754012
Wikidata: Q7889456
Library of congress: no 97062296
Sources of Information
  • Center's web site, 10/23/97(at CHPPM's background: Department of the Army, U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine; Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.; U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (USACHPPM); began over 50 yrs. ago as Army Industrial Hygiene Laboratory [no publs. in LC database], est'd at beginning of World War II and under Army Surgeon General, and located at Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health; became U.S. Army Environmental Hygiene Agency; became U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine)
  • Phone call to Center, 10/23/97(U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (Provisional), removed "Provisional" 1 Oct. 1996, to become U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine)
  • Avoiding tick and rodent-borne disease ... 1997?:p. 1 (US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD)
  • Environmental health risk assessment and chemical exposure guidelines for deployed military personnel, 2010:t.p. (fall of 2009, U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine was realigned to the U.S. Army Public Health Command (Provisional) (USAPHC (Prov)))

Wikipedia description:

The Defense Centers for Public Health-Aberdeen (DCPH-A, formerly: U.S. Army Public Health Center, APHC) is a United States Army element headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, United States. As a forward operating agency of the United States Army Medical Command, DCPH-A is responsible for providing technical support and expertise in the areas of preventive medicine, public health, health promotion, and wellness to military units around the globe. John Resta serves as the director. The Maryland Office of ORAU and the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education administers research participation programs for DCPH-A.

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