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Organisation - Branches & Directorates
Joint Health Command (JHC) comprises four branches:
The Directorate of Corporate Management is attached to the JHC Executive area and has responsibility
for the following functions within JHC:
- Finance;
- Procurement &
Contracting Services;
- Facilities; and
- Human Resources.
Policy & Research Coordination Branch
The following Directorates are listed under Policy & Research Coordination Branch:
- ADF Family Health - Administration of the Project for healthcare for ADF Families/dependants
- Army Malaria Institute - Prevention and treatment of vector borne disease through pharmacological agents or physical means.
- Directorate of Military Medicine - Responsible for the development to publication of clinical and medical military policy. Preparation and management of Medical Employment Classification Review Board (MECRB) documentation
- The ADF Chair of Military Surgery and Medicine was as a joint venture between the University of Queensland, the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital and the Department of Defence
- Joint eHealth Data Information System (JeHDI) - JeHDI will link health data from recruitment to discharge and allow for treating health practitioner to access patients complete health record.
- Health Research - Australian Defence Human Research Ethics Committee (ADHREC) - ADHREC's mission is to promote and encourage health research in the military context.
- Centre for Military & Veterans Health - an internationally-unique academic, community and military partnership dedicated to innovatively seeking solutions to military and veterans’ health issues
Garrison Health Operations Branch
The Branch is primarily responsible for the delivery and management of quality, safe, efficient and effective health care to ADF personnel within Australia and on non-operational postings overseas.
The following Directorates are listed under Garrison Health Operations Branch :
Health Capability Branch
Health Capability Branch is charged with the Lead Capability Management functions for ASF Health on behalf of Commander Joint Health. The branch deals with strategic issues associated with workforce planning and future health capability materiel management of behalf of Navy, Army, Air Force and Director General Garrison Health Operations.
The following Directorates are listed under Health Capability Branch:
- Directorate of Future Health Capability
- Responsible for health capability planning, doctrine, interoperability, research, health force structure, and the development and coordination of an implementation strategy for JP 2060.
- Directorate of Health Materiel Logistics and Pharmacy
- Responsible for the determination of specifications, pattern certification, standards and technical requirements for the rationalisation, introduction and cataloguing of medical and dental stores required by the ADF.
- Directorate of
Workforce Development & Training / Defence Force Nursing - Responsible for workforce planning for all health professions and trades including medical officers, nursing officers, dental officers and dental auxiliaries (supported by DDFD), psychologists and psychology assessors (supported by DFPO), environmental health officers and surveyors, preventive medicine officers, medical assistants, pharmacists, radiographers, scientific officers, laboratory technicians, PTIs, physiotherapists, MAOs and GSOs.
Mental Health, Psychology & Rehabilitation Branch
The Branch is compromised of four Directorates which also serve as the Technical Authorities for occupational psychology, operational mental health support, non-operational mental health services and rehabilitation services.
The following Directorates are listed under Mental Health Psychology & Rehabilitation Branch:
14 March, 2012
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