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The world's premier military health enterprise.

We are a Combat Support Agency. Everything we do—clinical care, education, training, logistics, research, information systems, and enterprise management—exists for one reason: generate and sustain warfighter readiness.

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Photo By Robert Hammer | Defense Health Agency Director Navy Vice Adm. Darin K. Via and Navy Force Master Chief PatrickPaul C. Mangaran, DHA command senior enlisted leader, discuss the operational framework to achieve the combat support agency’s mission of Total Force readiness at an All Hands meeting at Defense Health Headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia, Oct. 7. By standardizing organizational processes, enhancing workforce readiness and agility, strengthening data-driven operations, and cultivating open communication, Via said the framework will guide the agency to accomplish his strategic priorities.

DHA reveals fiscal year 2027 operational framework to achieve combat support mission

Nov. 03, 2026

This framework directs resources to the agency’s most critical objectives while stopping unnecessary tasks that offer little value.

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Courtesy Photo | The Global Nurse Advice Line lets you connect with a registered nurse by phone, chat, or video. It’s available 24/7 and free for TRICARE beneficiaries to use. Registered nurses are available to answer your questions, assess your symptoms, and give you advice.

Q&A: Understanding the Global Nurse Advice Line

Nov. 03, 2026

The TRICARE Global Nurse Advice Line provides free, 24/7 healthcare guidance from registered nurses via phone, web chat, or video.

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Photo By Robert Hammer | Navy Vice Adm. Darin K. Via, Defense Health Agency director, introduces retired Army Col. Matthew Clark as the next assistant director for the Defense Health Agency's research, development, and acquisition enterprise at Defense Health Headquarters, Sept. 22. Clark said his team will explore what the “force needs, when it needs it, and how their work supports that need,” in putting the most qualified staff and resources put behind the DHA’s highest priorities.

Strengthening acquisition, research efforts will support warfighter readiness

Nov. 03, 2026

We want our providers, warfighters, and beneficiaries to know we are listening, and we are learning from you.

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Courtesy Photo | The National Museum of Health and Medicine, in Silver Spring, Maryland, features a collection spanning more than 250 years of innovation and highlighting the symbiotic relationship between military and civilian healthcare. (National Museum of Health Photo by Chuck Kennedy)

Preserving the past, informing the future: Inside the National Museum of Health and Medicine

Nov. 02, 2026

Our collection is a bridge connecting past lessons in military medicine to the innovations protecting warfighters today,

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Tour the National Museum of Health and Medicine on Veterans Day
Nov. 11, 2026

Medical Museum Veterans Day Tour

Join NMHM for a tour of the museum on Veterans Day.

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So Others May Live: Army Aeromedical Evacuation Operations in the Republic of Vietnam, 1962-1973
Nov. 15, 2026

Medical Museum Lecture Series

Join NMHM for a lecture on Army Aeromedical Evacuation Operations in the Republic of Vietnam, 1962-1973.

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LUGANVILLE, Vanuatu (Nov. 11, 2025) – Lt. Cmdr. Gillian Claveria-Ooms performs a vision screening on a Vanuatu local at Northern Provincial Hospital in Luganville, Vanuatu, in support of Pacific Partnership 2025, Nov. 11. Now, in its 21st iteration, the Pacific Partnership series is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster management preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific. Pacific Partnership works collaboratively with host and partner nations to enhance regional interoperability and disaster response capabilities, increased security and stability in the region, and foster new and enduring friendships in the Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ethan Lambert)
Nov. 18, 2026

TBICoE Training Series: Assessment of Dizziness and Visual Disturbances Following Concussion

This training provides medical staff with a single, comprehensive reference for the assessment and management of dizziness and visual disturbances.

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