United States. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2

Parent Organization

United States. Navy

Description

NAMRU-2 had its beginnings on Guam during World War II under the Rockefeller Foundation. Its primary function then, as it is now, was to study infectious diseases of potential military significance in Asia. The unit was established in 1955 in Taipei, Taiwan, where it operated for 24 years. A NAMRU-2 detachment was established in 1970 in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 1979, when politics dictated that NAMRU-2 leave Taiwan, the command turned to its collaborators in the Republic of the Philippines to identify a new site for the laboratory. The Unit was officially established in Manila on 15 April 1979. In March of 1991, the Command was transferred to Jakarta and the Manila Detachment closed in June 1994. The laboratory remained in Jakarta until 2010, when it was requested to close by the Government of Indonesia. The Unit was relocated to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and officially opened as NAMRU-2 Pacific on 17 June 2010. NAMRU-2 Pacific currently operates a detachment laboratory located at the National Institutes of Public Health, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and a detachment within the Office of Defense Cooperation, U.S. Embassy Singapore. Mission: Identify infectious disease threats of military and public health importance and develop and evaluate interventions and products to mitigate those threats. NAMRU-2 supports US interests in the Pacific Theater and advances diplomacy in the region by conducting infectious disease research and improving disease surveillance and outbreak response assistance for infectious diseases of critical public health importance to the United States and our regional partners.

Source

U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2 - Pacific. "U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2 - Pacific." Retrieved July 31, 2012 from http://www.med.navy.mil/SITES/NAMRU2PACIFIC/Pages/default.aspx

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1955

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