Any facet of medical research relating to homeland defense and security, public health/global health, or military operations.

Recent Inquiries

Memory Effect Mitigation of an Incinerator’s Pollution Abatement System

How can the "memory effect" of an incinerator's pollution abatement system be removed after it becomes contaminated with dioxins and furans?

What work is being done to create additional safety equipment to protect a Warfighter’s head from low-level blasts?

What work is being done to create additional safety equipment to protect a Warfighter’s head from low-level blasts?

What is causing the current surge in Oropouche virus cases in Brazil?

What is causing the current surge in Oropouche virus cases in Brazil?

Articles

Frederick Brozoski, an engineer at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command’s Aeromedical Research Laboratory, discusses the findings of his research into historical trends in Army pilot injuries and the outcomes of enemy attacks... (Paul Lagasse)

Researcher Uses Historical Data to Identify Trends in Pilot Injuries

KISSIMMEE, Fla. – The protective equipment currently provided to Army rotary-wing aircraft crews is effective at protecting against injuries caused by enemy ordnance, though unprotected arms and legs remain the most vulnerable to injury, according…

Brain Injury Devices in Focus During Fort Liberty Soldier Touchpoint

FORT LIBERTY, N.C. — Team members with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development Activity joined dozens of U.S. Army medics at Fort Liberty, North Carolina, to assess the progress of several traumatic brain injury (TBI)…

Clostridium perfringens bacteria

Revealing the Mysteries Within Microbial Genomes

A new technique developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) will make it much easier for researchers to discover the traits or activities encoded by genes of unknown function in microbes, a key step…

Webinars

A Navy Hospital Corpsman sits beside a simulated patient on the back of a vehicle.

Autonomous Platforms for Casualty Evacuation: State of the Art and Future Directions

The United States faces the return of large-scale combat operations against peer and near-peer competitors—an environment not seen in over 70 years. This creates multiple challenges like managing overwhelming numbers of casualties and providing medical…

People sit around a table as a government representative speaks.

Don’t Forget to Inform the Public: Why Messaging Matters

Throughout the course of various crises, communication from government agencies and key stakeholders is critical.  Unfortunately, this communication has been upended many times in a variety of ways.  To alleviate public fear, some organizations have…

Soldiers carry a mock wounded comrade on a litter during training.

Human Movement and Rhythmical Reasoning: An Unconventional Approach to Researching Resilience

This presentation discusses findings from our ethnographic study titled “The Impact of Catastrophic Injury Exposure on Resilience in Special Operations Surgical Teams (SOST)” to explore our new definition of unconventional resilience. Our bottom-up approach to…

Events

Two law enforcement agents training with shields.

The 2024 Law Enforcement Theme Week

The Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) will host the 2024 Law Enforcement Theme Week training during the week of November 17 – 23, 2024 (17th and 23rd are travel days) on the CDP campus in…

Public Health in a Migrant Crisis Tabletop Exercise

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON, COLLABORATIVE EVENT. Please note, registration for this event has closed.     In 2022, there were over 100 million displaced persons globally, a number that only continues to grow. Because one region’s…

Fire Rescue professional supervises training of military personnel

National Homeland Security Conference 2024

The National Homeland Security Conference brings together professionals in homeland security, law enforcement, fire, and emergency management. They include officials in federal agencies, nonprofit agencies, business owners, universities, and decision-makers to contribute or learn about…