Ellen Embrey- The Role Of Healthcare In National Security (4:30PM)
The Dickey Center for International Understanding
and
Thayer School of Engineering
are pleased to present
Ellen P. Embrey
Assistant Secretary of Defense and Acting Director of TRICARE Management Activity
The Role of Healthcare in National Security
December 8, 2008
4:30 p.m.
Spanos Auditorium, Thayer School of Engineering
Biography:
Ellen P. Embrey is performing the
duties of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and
Acting Director of TRICARE Management Activity.
She previously served as Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Health Protection and
Readiness (FHP&R), overseeing Department-wide efforts to develop
and implement policies and programs relating to DoD deployment
medicine, force health protection, medical readiness, and national
disaster support for 2.3 million Service members.
Under her direction, Force Health
Protection and Readiness Policy and Programs proactively addresses
deployment-related health threats to the welfare of U.S. Service
members and their families, and integrates medical lessons learned from
previous conflicts into current policy, doctrine and practice. This
dynamic process involves all components of the military health care
system, emphasizing the relationship between military medicine and the
fighting forces it supports.
The health care policies and programs
overseen or developed since her appointment in January 2002 have
ensured that the health care needs of the more than 1.4 million Service
members deployed to Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom since
2001 have been met, and that comprehensive deployment health
information has been provided to their families.
In February 2004, Ms. Embrey was
appointed to organize and lead the DoD Task Force on Care for Victims
of Sexual Assaults. For three months, the Task Force reviewed the
treatment and care of victims of sexual assault, with particular
attention paid to those in the theater of combat. The Task Force’s
recommendations led to the establishment of the Sexual Assault
Prevention and Response Office, a single point of accountability for
addressing sexual assault matters.
Before joining the Office of Health
Affairs, Ms. Embrey served in a variety of senior- and executive-level
positions in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Reserve Affairs (OASD/RA) where she worked to ensure that the Reserve
Components, which comprise more than half the U.S. military, were
adequately trained, equipped and ready to serve when needed.
During the nine-month presidential
transition period in 2001, Ms. Embrey performed the duties of Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs. From 2000 to 2001, she served
as Chief of Staff of that office, and from 1998 to 2001 as Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Assistance to Civil
Authorities.
Prior to her service with the Office
of Reserve Affairs, Ms. Embrey held a variety of senior staff and
management positions relating to Reserve Component program analysis and
oversight, fiscal and budget oversight, legislative and
intergovernmental relations, and information and resource management.
From 1981 to 1987, Ms. Embrey held
various staff and management positions at the Defense Contract Audit
Agency Headquarters, and from 1978 to 1981 served in the U.S. Office of
Personnel Management.
Ms. Embrey began her career as a
management intern at the U.S. Civil Service Commission in 1976. She
holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Tech and was twice
awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award.
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