Courtesy Story | Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command | 03.21.2024
At the forefront of bolstering Navy's force health protection capabilities stands the Navy Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE), dedicated to equipping Naval units with essential training and support. Recently, NECE delivered specialized pesticide equipment training to the Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit (NEPMU) FIVE at Naval Base San Diego....
Courtesy Story | Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command | 03.08.2024
March 10, 1949, marked a pivotal moment in Navy’s Medicine’s history when the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) orchestrated the consolidation of four World War II epidemiology teams into five dynamic Epidemic Disease Control Units, strategically positioned across the nation’s key locations in Virginia, North Carolina., Illinois, California, and Hawaii....
Courtesy Story | Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command | 02.14.2024
SAN DIEGO, Ca – Ms. Lisa M. Truesdale, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy (military manpower and personnel) and assistant secretary of the Navy (manpower and reserve affairs) visited Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit FIVE (NEPMU-5) on Wednesday, February 14....
Courtesy Story | Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command | 05.12.2022
A Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class assigned to the Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit Five, San Diego, was selected as the Navy League of San Diego's 2022 Sea Service Member of the Year....
Courtesy Story | Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command | 02.07.2022
The Navy Environmental Preventive Medicine Unit FIVE (NEPMU-5) Forward Deployable Preventive Medicine Units (FDPMU’s) exercised their knowledge and skills developed through extensive field training to provide support and expertise during Operation Allies Refuge (OAR)/Welcome (W) mission. The operation provided Afghan evacuees and personnel essential support at secure locations outside Afghanistan....
Courtesy Story | Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command | 01.25.2022
Cmdr. Matthew Humphreys, a Preventive Medicine physician with Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit FIVE (NEPMU 5) was recognized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) with the Silver Anniversary Award Jan. 19, at the 2022 NCAA Convention....
Courtesy Story | Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command | 11.03.2020
The Navy Environmental Preventive Medicine Unit Five (NEPMU-5) expanded its education and outreach program sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) by participating in the Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP.) The goals of these outreach programs are to encourage students to pursue careers in science and engineering, enhance their education through mentorship from......
Courtesy Story | Navy and Marine Corps Force Health Protection Command | 09.22.2020
Members from the Navy Environmental Preventive Medicine Unit Five (NEPMU-5) completed a 2-week vector surveillance mission at Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson (JBER), in Anchorage, Alaska in support of an Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch (AFHSB), Global Emerging Infection Surveillance (GEIS) project....
