Joint Health Command

The Army Malaria Institute (AMI) achieves its missions through the work of its 5 departments: Drug Resistance and Diagnostics, Drug Evaluation, Clinical Studies and Surveillance, Vector Surveillance and Control, and Arbovirology.

The Centre for Military and Veterans' Health (CMVH) is an innovative, multi-discipline centre, focusing specifically on the health of Australian Defence Force members during and after their service. CMVH is a University of Queensland led consortia, with University of Adelaide and the Charles Darwin University, supported by the Department of Defence and the Department of Veterans' Affairs, as an Australian Government initiative.

The mission of the Defence Force Psychology Organisation (DFPO) is to enhance ADF capability, operational effectiveness and force preservation through timely, pragmatic and culturally appropriate psychological support.

The Directorate of Health Capability Development is responsible for

• health concepts and force structure planning
• health capability planning including the development and coordination of an implementation strategy for JP2060 – Deployable Health Capability
• health doctrine development and review
• interoperability (regional and major allies), and
• health-related human research

The Directorate of Mental Health delivers key initiatives that include Improved Mental Health Literacy, Integration of ADF Mental Health Services, Enhanced ADF Service Delivery, ADF Mental Health Training Framework, ADF Mental Health Research and Surveillance, ADF Suicide Prevention Program, ADF Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Program, and Enhanced Resilience and Wellbeing in the ADF

Directorate of Military Medicine (DMM) is responsible for current Clinical Policy role as well as all Public Health related roles currently undertaken by Operational & Preventive Health, including public and preventive health policy development, CBRN doctrine and policy development and advice, health promotion, and health surveillance.

The role of Directorate of Strategic Workforce Development (DSWD) is seen as a broadening of the Directorate of Defence Force Nursing (DDFN) previous role to apply those skills and functions developed by and within the DDFN to the wider Health workforce. In this way it is envisaged that significant innovative synergies in the delivery of health care, and professional development of the Health workforce, can be identified and developed from a holistic Health Workforce perspective.

The ADF has a responsibility to provide Health Care to ADF members in order to maintain the required level of operational readiness. Rehabilitation is a key component for facilitating the return of members to a state of readiness as soon as is practicable after injury or illness. Rehabilitation has two purposes:

• The restoration of physical and mental functioning, and
• The restoration of productive work functioning.

The Directorate has responsibility for the Dental Officer Career and Professional Development Committee, the Dental Auxiliary Career Development Committee, oversight of clinical governance in the ADF dental service, strategic dental policy development and the provision of dental specific advice to ADF dental facilities, higher Defence organisations and other agencies.

Joint Health Support Agency (JHSA) provides health support services to Joint Health Command (JHC) and the Australian Defence Force (ADF) via each of its four sections:

• Health Support and Plans (HS&P): provides health liaison for Senior Health Officers (SHO) of the Area Health Services (AHS) and overseas posts and promulgates the requirements for NSA support to ADF operations and exercises.
• Medical Services (MS): provides health administrative support to the Medical Employment Classification Review Board (MECRB) and formal health care complaint resolution.

In each region, the PSS provides psychology support to various client units and dependencies: Navy, Army and Air Force. Some PSS provide direct support to military training establishments, and in other regions, the PSS is a centralised resource providing a range of psychological support including but not limited to counselling and assessment, psycho-educational briefing, climate measurement, pre and post-operational screening.

The Directorate of Corporate Management (DCM) has responsibility for the following functions within JHC: Finance; Procurement & Contracting Services; Human Resources: and Web site presence.