Health Readiness

The Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) for Health Readiness Policy and Oversight is the principal staff assistant and advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Health Affairs) for all medically related Department of Defense policies, programs, and activities. The office is responsible for deployment medicine, force health protection, medical readiness, international health agreements, deployment related health policy, theater information systems, humanitarian and health missions, and national disaster support.

• Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch
• Armed Services Blood Program
• Biological Surveillance Tools
• Civil Military Medicine
• Environmental Exposures
• Global Health Engagement
• Immunization Healthcare
• Mosquito-Borne Illnesses
• Pandemic Diseases
• Public Health
• Reserve Health Readiness Program