The United States Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine — known as USACHPPM or CHPPM (pronounced "chip 'em") — is a United States Army center headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, United States. USACHPPM was recently renamed U.S. Army Public Health Command (USAPHC). It responsible for providing technical support and expertise in the areas of preventive medicine, public health, health promotion, and wellness to military units around the globe. The Center also supervises five subordinate commands located at Fort George G. Meade in Maryland; Fort Sam Houston in Texas; Fort Lewis in Washington; Landstuhl in Germany; and Camp Zama in Japan.
The current commander of the Center is Brigadier General Timothy K. Adams.
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