How can the global health engagement (GHE) enterprise serve as a proactive tool to optimize global trauma readiness for future contingencies and crises?
Join us for this PEERS session featuring COL Jennifer M. Gurney, Chief of the Defense Health Agency’s Joint Trauma System (JTS), as she shares critical insights on the strategic value of partnership strengthening and interoperability building with our allied and partner forces through GHE efforts. This session will examine how peacetime health engagement operations, activities, and investments (OAIs) act as a foundational asset ensuring an effective, integrated, and resilient response to future crises and conflicts. COL Gurney will explore the critical intersection where GHE efforts meet theater medical readiness, offering strategic, operational, and tactical considerations on how to work towards bridging the two enterprises.
When: Wednesday, 29 July 2026 | 1200-1300 ET
Where: Virtual via MS Teams
What is PEERS?
PEERS (Practitioner Education, Exchange, and Resource Sharing) is a recurring knowledge sharing webinar series hosted by the National Institute for Defense Health Cooperation. The series serves as a platform to convene the global health engagement community to share knowledge on current topics and practice across the enterprise. Access our previous sessions here.