We are the U.S. Army Public Health Command, East (PHC, East)
PHC, East maintains a professional and technically competent staff of Soldiers and Civilians. We provide Public Health support in the areas of medical entomology, environmental health and engineering, sanitation, clinical veterinary care, food safety, food defense, industrial hygiene, and operational public health readiness planning and training. We also provide trained individuals to support world-wide deployment missions and medical response teams. We accomplish this varied and comprehensive support through our Veterinary Services Directorate and our Technical Services Directorate with its four divisions: (1) Environmental Health and Engineering Division; (2) Industrial Hygiene Division; (3) Laboratory Services Division; and (4) Entomological Sciences Division.
PHC, East also advises commanders on animal and veterinary public health missions in order to support the readiness and deployability of 1,400 DoD-owned animals. We optimize Service and Family Members’ readiness through comprehensive veterinary care of over 212,000 privately-owned animals. We provide food protection technical expertise and quality assurance through the Commercial Sanitation Audit Program to safeguard the wholesomeness and high quality of food and bottled water to DoD customers. We accomplish this through our Veterinary Services Directorate and our four Public Health Activities: (1) Veterinary Readiness Activity, Fort Belvoir; (2) Veterinary Readiness Activity, Fort Liberty; (3) Veterinary Readiness Activity, Fort Knox; and (4) Veterinary Readiness Activity, Fort Eisenhower.