Global Health Mission Area
Program Areas and Programs
The Global Health Mission Area is creating new ways to acquire and learn from data and developing new capabilities to enable better insights, decision-making, and interventions.
Our programs utilize a cross-disciplinary approach designed to drive science forward to protect and restore health from the individual through the global scale.
Contact us to learn more about our work.
Science and Technology Innovations Program
Partnering with leading science and technology organizations, we work to propel breakthroughs in research, development, and innovation. Bringing a cross-disciplinary approach, our partnerships drive science forward to protect and restore health at scales ranging from individual to global.
- Program Manager: Alan Ravitz
Health Protection and Assurance Program Area
The Health Protection and Assurance Program Area focuses on securing individual, population, and global health by using a foundational understanding of health threats, human biology, and a comprehensive health data ecosystem.
- Program Area Manager: Joshua Broadwater
We aim to provide technical capabilities to accelerate the transformation of the nation’s health system to protect and improve the health of the nation. Using a systems-oriented approach and diverse technical competencies, and focusing on outcomes, we work toward a health system that is safe, secure, resilient, and proactive in the way it uses data and technology.
- Program Manager: Jonathan Thornhill
We aim to fundamentally transform the way the world predicts, prevents, and responds to health threats in all environments. Applying our expertise in systems engineering, artificial intelligence, operational modeling, secure network systems, and novel sensing modalities, we work to protect the health of people around the world.
- Program Manager: Paul Nicholas
Warfighter Health and Readiness Program Area
The Warfighter Health and Readiness Program Area focuses on ensuring our warfighters are prepared to complete their mission, are protected from current and future threats, and will receive the best possible care in all environments.
- Program Area Manager: Susan Kennedy
Our program team develops, integrates, and delivers airman-centric research and technology, with a specific emphasis on force health protection, human performance, and en route care. We also provide data architecture and analytic solutions to the military health care ecosystem.
- Program Manager: Shana O. Eley
We conduct advanced research, develop capabilities, and operationalize technologies to improve the health, readiness, and protection of our soldiers. Specific focus areas include predicting and preventing injuries arising from blast, blunt, ballistic, and intermediate force threats; characterizing and limiting attrition or performance deficits associated with sustained warfighting; and developing improved Army-critical medical response capabilities.
- Program Manager: Quang T. Luong
Our program aims to meet the multiservice requirements of the joint medical force, specifically those assigned to the Defense Health Agency, the Uniformed Services University, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. This program strengthens APL’s trusted agent role with the defense health research and engineering enterprise and develops and integrates technologies that demonstrate operational impact for the warfighter.
- Program Manager: David Drewry III
APL develops, integrates, and operationalizes revolutionary capabilities specifically relevant to the Navy and Marine Corps’ medical mission. This program acts as an integrator for Navy Medicine focused on the development of medical capabilities and technologies and transitioning them from research to operations.
- Program Manager: Katie Esper Wallach
Counter CBRNE Threats Program Area
Through our Counter Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive (CBRNE) Threats Program Area, we focus on CBRNE defense for the homeland and our warfighters by conducting world-class science and technology research and developing leading-edge capabilities for the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security. We support specialized CBRNE operators countering conventional, advanced, and emerging weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
- Program Area Manager: Joe Behling
We shape the future of countering advanced and emerging CBRNE threats to allow U.S. forces to operate, and win, in CBRNE environments.
- Program Manager: Chuck Young
Our team aims to develop novel CBRNE threat characterization capabilities to enable advanced warning and deterrents.
- Acting Program Manager: Christopher Carter
We develop counter-WMD capabilities to enable the warfighter through science and technology innovation, transition, and alignment with the Chemical and Biological Defense Program and U.S. national strategies.
- Program Manager: Christopher Carter
We rapidly enable specialized warfighters with capabilities of high operational impact and conduct national-level analyses for CBRNE defense.
- Acting Program Manager: Chris Rosenker
We support the federal government with detection and characterization of emerging CBRNE threats and advanced technologies to help inform Homeland Security Enterprise defense activities.
- Program Manager: Kathlyn Santos