Assessing Technology Platforms for Global Health Engagement to Support Integration of Efforts Across Geographic Combatant Commands

Abstract

Global health engagement (GHE) is one of the strategic tools of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for executing the U.S. National Defense Strategy. GHE is an integral part of the cooperation efforts of DoD with partner nations and provides support in training and preparing their military and civilian health systems. GHE helps build and sustain partner health capacity, as well as partner trust and stability. This helps create interoperability with partners to ensure the protection of deployed U.S. forces and provide medical readiness opportunities. Additionally, partner capacity-building helps create a joint effort, in collaboration with the U.S. interagency, in combating global health threats. GHE activities leverage DoD capabilities to execute abroad range of functions, including force health protection; foreign humanitarian assistance; foreign disaster relief; nuclear, chemical, and biological defense; infectious disease response; and other stability and security cooperation operations. These activities encompass a wide spectrum of engagements military to-military, military-to-civilian, and multilateral and support joint missions of humanitarian aid and disaster response, deterrence, access and presence, counterterrorism, and homeland defense.6 The importance of these activities has been particularly noticeable during the global response to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. GHE activities within the geographic combatant commands (GCCs) form a critical part of the U.S. governments global security cooperation apparatus and stability operations. GHE activities also enable the building of bilateral and multilateral relationships and interoperability that help support U.S. interests and security objectives.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 12, 2023
Accession Number
AD1205470

Entities

People

  • Chandler Sachs
  • Jonathan Tran
  • Padmaja Vedula
  • Trupti Brahmghatt

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Business Administration
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Computer Programming
  • Covid-19
  • Data Analysis
  • Health Services
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Software Development
  • Warfare

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