Surgeon General or National Priority Work Group

Identify projects that align with Surgeon General’s Priorities or National Priorities that show how USPHS Engineer involvement can have a direct impact on the future health and safety of the nation.

Prevention through Active Community Engagement (PACE) Project Group

The PACE Project Group serves as a liaison between the EPAC and the PACE Chartered Advisory Group.  The purpose of the group is to enhance or support PACE lessons through engineering design.

Lead:       LCDR Timothy Martin

Co-Lead: LT Jong Ho Won

3D Print Naloxone Training Mask Project

Leveraging 3-D printing to produce a cost-effective naloxone training kit.  Naloxone Training aligns with the Surgeon General priorities and USPHS Commissioned Corps and Civil Service Engineers at the Food and Drug Administration have developed a solution increase the availability of naloxone trainings by making the kits more cost-effective. Read more about the project May/June 2020 Issue of The Military Engineer:

The Military Engineer: Saving Lives with 3D Printing

The 3-D Print files and instructions can be found on the NIH 3D Print Exchange:

Naloxone Training Mask:  https://3dprint.nih.gov/discover/3dpx-012142

Naloxone Inverse Mold:   In Development

Lead and Drinking Water

The Lead and Drinking Water Project Group collects information, especially from USPHS staff that have worked with affected communities, on how lead and potentially other drinking water contaminants impact communities and how they are being addressed.  Include both technical (e.g. treatment techniques) and non-technical (e.g. community engagement and buy-in) concerns.

Lead:       CAPT Alex Dailey

By applying a collaborative and disciplined problem-solving approach, and by employing organizational structure that supports their front-line delivery services, USPHS Commissioned Corps Engineers are improving public health and providing models of service that could benefit a wider population.

The objectives of the Project Group are:

• Understand lead exposure pathways, how they occur, and what their impacts are. Lead in drinking water is only one of several exposure pathways
• Understand the wider factors associated with lead issues (not just technical problems). For example, how they disproportionately affect disadvantaged populations or how property ownership issues restrict potential solutions.  (Most municipalities do not own the water service lines on the homeowners’ properties).