Global Health Engagement Operations Course (GHEOC) – 23-27 June 2025 – Bethesda, MD
Background: The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) Center for Global Health Engagement (CGHE) will host the upcoming iteration of the Global Health Engagement Operations Course (GHEOC). The course welcomes a broad range of DoD personnel who directly support DoD GHE strategy, planning, coordination, and execution. This course was previously facilitated by the U.S. Air Force International Health Specialist (IHS) Program, and is the current Joint GHE planning course. The GHEOC is designed, planned, and executed as a partnership among the Service GHE offices, the Combatant Commands (CCMDs), Defense Security Cooperation University (DSCU), USU CGHE, and other partners.
Course Objective: The GHEOC prepares personnel in GHE-focused positions to develop steady-state operations, activities and investments (OAIs) in support of CCMD campaign plan objectives. Steady-state OAIs include Joint, Service, and multinational exercises, as well as security assistance (SA) and Security Cooperation (SC) activities that may build partner capabilities and capacity, enhance strategic partnerships, secure contingency and peacetime access, and promote interoperability. This course focuses on leadership and planner level instruction on: GHE program lifecycle design and management; SA/SC key elements; Assessment, Monitoring, and Evaluation (AME); and structure/functions of Joint and Service headquarters staffs as relates to GHE. Learning activities are built within the course and focus on principles of SA/SC, strategy, and health/medical as instruments of national security.
Intended Audience: The GHEOC is relevant to DoD personnel who plan, coordinate, and execute GHE programs and activities as part of their daily duties, including U.S. Air Force International Health Specialists, U.S. Navy Health Security Cooperation Officers, Army personnel in GHE and medical security cooperation positions, and personnel from joint organizations involved in GHE. The course is open to Active Duty, Guard, Reserve, Civilian, and Contractor personnel with GHE duties. The course will accept a maximum of 60 participants.
Course Logistics: The course will be held 23-27 June 2025 at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation’s Bethesda Auditorium in Bethesda, Maryland. Daily class hours will be 0800 to approximately 1700. Course prerequisites and materials will be provided via the course learning management system. USU CGHE will provide lodging suggestions within the USG per diem rate. Additional details to follow in reporting instructions.
Funding: There are no associated course fees. Any associated TDY costs will be the responsibility of and borne by the Service/organization. All personnel will require command approval to attend.
Student Application: Interested personnel who meet the intended audience criteria should complete this demographics form and email the following two items to GHEOC@usuhs.edu:
- a resume/CV
- personal statement of no more than 250 words detailing how this leader/planner-level course will improve your readiness to plan or manage DoD GHE and/or Security Cooperation programs, and how you intend to contribute your expertise/experience to the benefit of the course.
Applications are due NLT 26 May 2025. Couse seat allocations will be determined by 02 June 2025 and selected personnel will be notified and provided reporting instructions.
Contact: For questions regarding this course, please contact GHEOC@usuhs.edu.
SAVE THE DATE – NEXT VIRTUAL CORPS CHIEFS CALL WITH ADMIRAL BROWN ON APRIL 23, 2025 (TWO SESSIONS)
- Date: 23 APRIL 2025
- Session 1: 1100-1230 EST, 0800-0930 PST
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JOINT MEDICAL EXECUTIVE SKILLS INSTITUTE (JMESI) – VIRTUAL CAPSTONE for MHS LEADERS COURSE
Who: Senior Medical Officers (O-6, O-6 selects or high-performing O-5 officers who are on track for executive medicine have previously attended)
What: Joint Medical Executive Skills Institute (JMESI) – CAPSTONE for MHS Leaders Course
When: July 15-18, 2025 (Virtual – 8-9 seats allotted for Medical Corps)
Course Description: The LEADS Capstone Course is a pinnacle educational event for senior leaders in the MHS. Each Navy Medicine Career Planner nominates senior grade officers, primarily in the grade of senior O6, to attend this course. Priority is given to new lead agents, commanders of larger facilities, command surgeons, and other senior medical department officers in key staff positions who will benefit from exposure to and familiarity with entities that shape the MHS. The course provides participants with exposure to the operations of the various organizations within the Department of Defense, pertinent congressional staffs, and the offices of the three Surgeons General. Participation in the Capstone Course will enhance the understanding of how national healthcare policies are formed, and by whom, and how they are implemented and put into operation.
With the smaller class size, direct interaction with policy makers and military health care leaders, and its joint audience the Capstone Course has come to provide firsthand, real world, applicable knowledge/information for the attendees to incorporate into their day-to-day and future work in the MHS.
Upon completion of the course the participants will:
- Have an enhanced understanding of MHS policymaking including how policies are disseminated and the legal basis for those policies.
- Gain a deeper sense of TRICARE issues and policies that shape the delivery of DOD health care.
- Become familiarized with information systems to support executive decision-making, as well as tools for evaluating quality assurance, customer satisfaction, and metrics.
- Opportunity to discuss issues of retention and recruitment from the military and national perspectives as well as financial and business matters as they relate to the MHS.
- Share networking opportunities to include, but not limited to the Surgeons General, members of other services serving in similar capacities, OSD leaders including Deputy Secretaries, the VA, civilian health program managers, and academia.
- Become familiar with unique ways of dealing with human relations and gain a better appreciation for the way they are perceived by others.
- Exchange ideas on current issues such as risk management, patient safety, Homeland Security, bioterrorism, war fighters (the line) and Reserve Forces.
- Gain an enhanced appreciation for transformation and fiscal issues within the DOD.
Additional details and objectives can be found here: Joint Medical Executive Skills Institute | Health.mil
Prospective applicants should send the following to CAPT O’Sullivan NLT 1600 EST, Wednesday, April 9, 2025.
- An up-to-date CV and BIO (combined into one PDF)
- An email with the following information (in the following order): Rank, Name, Current position, work address, work phone and email address
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