GHE READINESS TRAINING
The National Institute for Defense Health Cooperation (NIDHC) maintains a comprehensive training curriculum designed to serve stakeholders across the DoW Global Health Engagement enterprise. Through a blend of virtual and in-person instruction, NIDHC provides specialized coursework to:
- Enhance readiness by preparing implementers, practitioners, and leaders across the Joint Force to support Combatant Command strategic goals through effective health-related operations, activities, and investments
- Demonstrate strategic value by increasing institutional awareness of Global Health Engagement’s critical role in achieving national security objectives.
- Foster synchronization by empowering greater coordination and alignment among DoW components, interagency planners, and international allies.
Our curriculum is tailored for a professional audience, including DoW military and civilian personnel, allied and partner nation stakeholders, U.S. Government Interagency representatives, and members of the Non-Governmental Organizations and academic communities involved in defense-led international health initiatives.
The Global Health Engagement Training Continuum
The NIDHC Global Health Engagement Training Continuum is a tiered suite of courses designed to ensure mission readiness and effectiveness, directly informed by Service-defined competencies and requirements. This structured approach ensures that personnel at every level are equipped with the specific skills necessary to execute Global Health Engagement objectives. To meet the evolving needs of the Joint Force, these courses can be tailored and delivered upon request for Combatant Commands, Service Components, and individual units. Detailed information regarding course customization and scheduling can be found on the Request a GHE Course page.
INTRODUCTION TO DOW GLOBAL HEALTH ENGAGEMENT
This asynchronous online course is designed to familiarize deploying personnel with the strategic rationale, opportunities, challenges, and basic considerations of GHE OAIs. Module 1, “all-service”, explains the “why” of DoW GHE, while Modules 2-4, “all-medical”, focuses on the key elements to ensure all military medical personnel can effectively support DoW GHE missions, addressing opportunities, challenges, and basic considerations to achieve operational and tactical goals.
FUNDAMENTALS OF DOW GLOBAL HEALTH ENGAGEMENT (FOGHE)
USU NIDHC’s flagship course aims to enhance the readiness of U.S. military medical personnel to develop and implement DoW GHE OAIs at the tactical and operational levels. Participants gain a greater understanding of: 1) the strategic, operational, and civil-military considerations in DoW GHE; 2) the framework for establishing the context of a health engagement; and 3) the components of planning, executing, and evaluating DoW GHE activities. The course is provided virtually once per quarter, and in-person to support requests from Combatant Commands and Service Components.
GLOBAL HEALTH ENGAGEMENT OPERATIONS COURSE (GHEOC)
The Global Health Engagement Operations Course (GHEOC) is provided for GHE planners and leaders at the Combatant Command and Service Component levels at least twice annually to meet the Service training requests of GHE professionals, program managers and security cooperation planners. This course focuses on aligning GHE OAIs to Command Campaign Plans (CCPs), as well as program design, management, funding, monitoring, and evaluation.
Tailored, Mission-Ready Training and Practical Workshops
NIDHC provides a collection of tailorable, practical skills workshops to enhance the readiness of personnel deploying in support of DoW GHE missions. These workshops can be delivered at the request of GHE mission planners via the Request a GHE Course page.
GHE Planning Workshop
USU NIDHC designs and facilitates tailored planning workshops at the request of Combatant Commands or Service Components, often in coordination with an in-person Fundamentals of DoW Global Health Engagement (FOGHE) course.
Conducting Health Facility Assessments
This half-day workshop is designed to improve the readiness of U.S. GHE practitioners to conduct Health Needs and Health Facility Assessments with allies and partners.
Using Interpreters to Enable Effective Engagements
This workshop is designed to improve the readiness of U.S. GHE practitioners to use interpreters to enable effective engagements.
NIDHC Support to GHE-related Courses
Support to Defense Medical Readiness Training Institute (DMRTI) Courses
Joint Medical Operations Course - Basic (JMOC-B): This course provides training in joint and combined operational and medical planning that will span the operational environment from point of injury/illness to the appropriate capability of care across the full spectrum of military operations. JMOC familiarizes students to the Joint Operational Planning and medical planning process; policy guidance and information relevant to planning, and Joint Staff publication to include Joint Publication 4-02, Joint Health Services. How to apply
Joint Senior Medical Leader Course (JSMLC)
JSMLC is a five-day that is designed to enhance the preparation of senior medical leaders who have a high probability of being nominated as a JTF Surgeon, JTF Senior medical leader, or occupy a senior medical planning position in a Joint environment. In addition, the course would be valuable for those serving in senior service departments training and preparing forces for Joint operations and deployment. Course dates and application process
NATO Centre of Excellence for Military Medicine (NATO MMCOE) Military Global Health Engagement (MGHE) Course
USU NIDHC provides curriculum development and instructor support to the NATO Military Global Health Engagement (MGHE) Course. The aim of the MGHE course is to equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary to conduct an early needs analysis, which forms the basis for planning and delivering future Defense Engagement activities. The course covers the standardization of internal approaches, methods for sharing lessons learned, identification of global best practices, and emphasizes the importance of collaboration with a wide range of governmental and non-governmental organizations in the development of defense engagement.
