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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jennifer Koentop
August 24, 2007
202-205-0143

Commission Corps Officers Continue Humanitarian Mission Aboard the USS Peleliu
A multidisciplinary team of officers in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is serving on the USS Peleliu,a multipurpose amphibious ship on a medical, dental, public health, and humanitarian-assistance mission in Southeast Asia and the Western and Outer Pacific Islands.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jennifer Koentop
July 6th, 2007
202-205-0143

Commissioned Corps Officers Serve on Hospital Ship in International Humanitarian Health Program
A team of 17 U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps officers is serving on the USNS Comfort, a U.S. Navy hospital ship that departed Norfolk, VA, on June 15 to begin a medical, public health and oral health mission in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Video: USPHS Onboard USNS Comfort


The Commissioned Corps interacts with the media through the Office of Communications at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Public Health and Science. To reach this office, contact:

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Jennifer Koentop
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Office of Public Health and Science
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
202-205-0143
Jennifer.Koentop@hhs.gov

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