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<p>By Cmdr. Ted St. John, MSC, USN, PhD, Executive Officer, Naval Medical Research Unit San Antonio Marine Forces Pacific (MARFORPAC) Radiation Health Officer for Operation Tomodachi.<br><br>"When operational commanders’ humanitarian assistance efforts are confounded by radioactive fallout, they need the expertise the Navy Medical Service Corps can provide. Risk communication is just a small part of what nearly half of the Navy’s RHO community and several RHTs have been doing since the Japanese reactors in Fukushima Prefecture made world headlines."<br><br></p>
<br>Subjects: Operation Tomodachi; humanitarian assistance; Navy Medicine Live Blog; Japan; nuclear power; Medical Service Corps</div>
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U.S. Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</div>
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