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| Courtesy photo - LCDR Bryan Buss of York vaccinates a cow at Port-Au-Prince, Haiti during Continuing Promise 2009. |
For a York man it was an adventure, but with a decidedly humanitarian theme.
LCDR Bryan Buss, a clinical veterinarian from York, served on the USNS Comfort, a U.S. Navy hospital ship that departed Norfolk, Va., on a medical, public health and oral health mission in Latin America and the Caribbean. Buss was on the USNS Comfort in support of Continuing Promise 2009 (CP09). CP09 is an equal partnership mission designed to combine partner nation and U.S. relief capabilities to demonstrate the lasting bonds and shared interest among neighbors.
Buss served on a multi-disciplinary team of officers of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. The Commissioned Corps protects, promotes and advances the health and safety of the nation. With more than 6,300 officers, the Commissioned Corps is one of the nation's seven uniformed services, and is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
“Our Commissioned Corps officers help create strong alliances with our surrounding and distant neighbors by participating in humanitarian missions like this one,” said HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius. “We know the United States cannot take on every challenge. We must continue to find ways to work together with other nations to fight against and to prevent disease.”
“I am extremely proud and honored to lead an elite group of men and women dedicated to serving their country as global public health ambassadors,” said Rear Adm. Steven K. Galson, acting assistant secretary for health and acting surgeon general. “Missions such as Continuing Promise 2009 illustrate how our officers stand ready to assist, protect and promote better access to health care here at home and abroad.” Galson is the head of the U.S. Public Health Service.
The four-month mission of the USNS Comfort is designed to increase the operational capacity of U.S. government personnel to deliver humanitarian assistance, perform public health assessments, conduct public health infrastructure repairs and provide health care training of indigenous health care workers in the Caribbean and Latin America while providing a range of health care services onboard ship and ashore. The Commissioned Corps officers are working with the U.S. Navy, Army and Coast Guard, as well as with Project Hope, a non-profit organization working to make health care available around the globe with an emphasis on children's health, and with Operation Smile, a non-profit organization focused on repairing childhood facial deformities.
Commissioned Corps officers aboard the USNS Comfort are gaining valuable experience in treating patients in environments with few resources-skills that will be useful to officers.
The its current mission the USNS Comfort is delivering care in Antigua, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Panama before arriving back in Norfolk on July 31.
The U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps has jobs for highly skilled men and women who seek professional fulfillment, enjoy challenges and want to improve the quality of public health for the nation's communities that are most in need.
For information about how you can make a difference with the Commissioned Corps, call us at 800-279-1605 or 240-453-6125, or visit our Web site at www.usphs.gov
LCDR Bryan Buss, a clinical veterinarian from York, served on the USNS Comfort, a U.S. Navy hospital ship that departed Norfolk, Va., on a medical, public health and oral health mission in Latin America and the Caribbean. Buss was on the USNS Comfort in support of Continuing Promise 2009 (CP09). CP09 is an equal partnership mission designed to combine partner nation and U.S. relief capabilities to demonstrate the lasting bonds and shared interest among neighbors.
Buss served on a multi-disciplinary team of officers of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. The Commissioned Corps protects, promotes and advances the health and safety of the nation. With more than 6,300 officers, the Commissioned Corps is one of the nation's seven uniformed services, and is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
“Our Commissioned Corps officers help create strong alliances with our surrounding and distant neighbors by participating in humanitarian missions like this one,” said HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius. “We know the United States cannot take on every challenge. We must continue to find ways to work together with other nations to fight against and to prevent disease.”
“I am extremely proud and honored to lead an elite group of men and women dedicated to serving their country as global public health ambassadors,” said Rear Adm. Steven K. Galson, acting assistant secretary for health and acting surgeon general. “Missions such as Continuing Promise 2009 illustrate how our officers stand ready to assist, protect and promote better access to health care here at home and abroad.” Galson is the head of the U.S. Public Health Service.
The four-month mission of the USNS Comfort is designed to increase the operational capacity of U.S. government personnel to deliver humanitarian assistance, perform public health assessments, conduct public health infrastructure repairs and provide health care training of indigenous health care workers in the Caribbean and Latin America while providing a range of health care services onboard ship and ashore. The Commissioned Corps officers are working with the U.S. Navy, Army and Coast Guard, as well as with Project Hope, a non-profit organization working to make health care available around the globe with an emphasis on children's health, and with Operation Smile, a non-profit organization focused on repairing childhood facial deformities.
Commissioned Corps officers aboard the USNS Comfort are gaining valuable experience in treating patients in environments with few resources-skills that will be useful to officers.
The its current mission the USNS Comfort is delivering care in Antigua, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua and Panama before arriving back in Norfolk on July 31.
The U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps has jobs for highly skilled men and women who seek professional fulfillment, enjoy challenges and want to improve the quality of public health for the nation's communities that are most in need.
For information about how you can make a difference with the Commissioned Corps, call us at 800-279-1605 or 240-453-6125, or visit our Web site at www.usphs.gov
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