Organization
The NCMI is organized into a support division and two substantive divisions—the Epidemiology and Environmental Health Division and the Medical Capabilities Division. Each substantive division is made up of two teams, the duties of which include:
Environmental Health
- Identify and assess environmental risks that can degrade force health or effectiveness including chemical and microbial contamination of the environment, toxic industrial, chemical and radiation accidents, and environmental terrorism/warfare.
- Assess the impact of foreign environmental health issues and trends on environmental security and national policy.
Epidemiology
- Identify, assess, and report on infectious disease risks that can degrade mission effectiveness of deployed forces and/or cause long-term health implications.
- Alert operational and policy customers to foreign disease outbreaks that have implications for national security and policy formulation, including homeland defense and deliberately introduced versus naturally occurring disease outbreaks.
Life Sciences and Biotechnology
- Assess foreign basic and applied biomedical and biotechnological developments of military medical importance.
- Assess foreign civilian and military pharmaceutical industry capabilities.
- Assess foreign scientific and technological medical advances for defense against nuclear, biological and chemical warfare.
- Prevent technological surprise.
- Prevent proliferation of dual-use equipment and knowledge.
Medical Capabilities
- Assess foreign military and civilian medical capabilities, including treatment facilities, medical personnel, emergency and disaster response, logistics, and medical/pharmaceutical industries.
- Maintain and update an integrated data base on all medical treatment, training, pharmaceutical, and research and production facilities.
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