Aligning Defence Environmental and Occupational Health (EOH) Capability with Future Requirements: The 4th Australian Defence Force EOH Conference

摘要

Presenters and participants represented the various?ADF Services, interagency partners such as the?Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the?Department of Veterans Affairs, academia, as well?as our international partners from the New Zealand,?United Kingdom and the United States Defence Forces.?The conference opened with a brief presentation of?what the future might hold for the EOH profession?within the Pacific Region and an overview of strategic?efforts underway by the ADF Joint Health Command?(JHC), the conference co-sponsor along with the?Australian Army 1st Preventive Medicine Company.?Six sessions followed over three days ranging in?topics from EOH on exercise and deployment to?health surveillance informing health intelligence.?The remaining sections of this commentary will?outline the anticipated future challenges for the EOH?profession, strategic initiatives underway within?JHC to support EOH, key highlights from each of the?conference sessions, and concluding thoughts for?the Defence EOH community to ponder.