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The U. S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine ( USACHPPM ) mission is to provide worldwide health promotion and preventive medicine leadership and services to identify, assess and counter environmental, occupational and disease threats to the health, fitness and readiness of America ’ s Army, the Army community and the Army civilian workforce.

The unit ’ s lineage can be traced back over 50 years to the Army Industrial Hygiene Laboratory, established at the beginning of World War II and, under the direct jurisdiction of The Army Surgeon General, conducted occupational health surveys of Army-operated industrial plants, arsenals and depots.

These surveys were aimed at identifying and eliminating occupational health hazards within the DoD ’ s industrial production base and proved to be of great benefit to the nation ’ s war effort.