Joint Health - Australian Defence Force

Joint Health - Australian Defence Force The official page of Joint Health Command and the Australian Defence Force’s Health Services.

01/09/2026

🩸 Roll up your sleeve and make a difference.

The Defence Blood Drive is back, giving Defence personnel, APS staff and industry partners the chance to help save lives through blood donation.

Australia needs 33,000 blood donations every week — that’s one donation every 18 seconds.

Last year, the Defence community made more than 10,000 donations. We’ve got until 30 November to beat that number.

💪 Get involved, give blood and help Defence make every donation count.

🎓 Congratulations to our newest ADF medics!Thirty graduates, one joint profession — ready to deliver care wherever and w...
01/09/2026

🎓 Congratulations to our newest ADF medics!

Thirty graduates, one joint profession — ready to deliver care wherever and whenever it’s needed. 🩺

A fantastic milestone for the graduates of Joint Medic Course 0021 and a great reflection of the training, teamwork and commitment behind our joint health capability.

👏 Congratulations also to this course’s award recipients.

Well done to all involved! 🎉

📸 SGT Casey Bone

🐻 Legacy Week is here.This week, Joint Health Command proudly supports Legacy Australia and the vital work they do for t...
31/08/2026

🐻 Legacy Week is here.

This week, Joint Health Command proudly supports Legacy Australia and the vital work they do for the families of our veterans.

A Legacy badge or iconic bear is more than a symbol, every contribution helps Legacy continue supporting thousands of veteran families across Australia.

👀 And I spy the historical nurses uniform bear — a lovely nod to our nursing history and those who have served before us.

If you see a Legacy volunteer this week, show your support. 💜

📷 SGT Tristan Kennedy

A stronger deployable health capability. Better care, wherever our people serve.Defence’s $421 million JP2060 Phase 3 up...
26/08/2026

A stronger deployable health capability. Better care, wherever our people serve.

Defence’s $421 million JP2060 Phase 3 upgrade delivers three fully equipped field hospitals, enhanced surgical and trauma care, intensive care and casualty evacuation capability.

For Joint Health Command, it means greater readiness, flexibility and the ability to deliver high-quality care across the full spectrum of operations — in Australia, overseas and alongside our partners.

🇦🇺🇳🇿 Stronger together at Exercise Pitch Black 2026.NZDF personnel joined Australian and international partners across t...
20/08/2026

🇦🇺🇳🇿 Stronger together at Exercise Pitch Black 2026.

NZDF personnel joined Australian and international partners across the exercise, including working alongside the ADF medical contingent to support the health and wellbeing of the force.

It was another strong example of how closely our two nations operate together. Sharing experience, building interoperability and strengthening the relationships that underpin combined health support on operations.

From medical support to logistics, fuel, security, catering and ground operations, Exercise Pitch Black highlighted the breadth of capability required to keep a large multinational force moving.

Great to see our NZDF colleagues working shoulder-to-shoulder with the ADF. 🩺🤝

From 27 July–2 August, Joint Medic Course 0022 students from the ADF School of Health took their training to sea aboard ...
19/08/2026

From 27 July–2 August, Joint Medic Course 0022 students from the ADF School of Health took their training to sea aboard HMAS Canberra III, travelling from Sydney to Townsville as part of their Military Module.

The Maritime Development Program put students inside the maritime environment — building an understanding of Navy health capability and the role of medics across an integrated joint force. ⚓️🩺

They tested their skills through man-overboard drills, mass-casualty scenarios and shipboard damage control, observed coalition aircraft operations, and worked alongside the ship’s medical team during daily sick parade.

Real platforms. Real integration. Training our future medics to operate wherever the mission takes them.

📸 SGT April Irvin

🚑 Mass casualty. High pressure. One team.Recently, Exercise Indiana at Puckapunyal brought ADF medics together with civi...
18/08/2026

🚑 Mass casualty. High pressure. One team.

Recently, Exercise Indiana at Puckapunyal brought ADF medics together with civilian emergency service partners for a realistic, multidisciplinary mass casualty scenario.

Working side-by-side in a high-pressure environment, our medics tested their clinical and operational skills, strengthened relationships with civilian counterparts, and showcased the professionalism and capability of ADF health personnel.

They performed exceptionally well and represented the ADF with pride. 💪🩺

🩺⚡ Ready when it matters most.Medics from the Special Operations Engineer Regiment (SOER) are training hard to deliver l...
15/08/2026

🩺⚡ Ready when it matters most.

Medics from the Special Operations Engineer Regiment (SOER) are training hard to deliver lifesaving care in some of the most complex and high-risk environments.

Building the clinical skills, resilience and readiness to save lives, wherever the mission takes them. 🇦🇺💪

🩺🦷 Military health is more than doctors, nurses and medics.On Exercise Pozières Run, 2nd Health Brigade is putting the f...
14/08/2026

🩺🦷 Military health is more than doctors, nurses and medics.

On Exercise Pozières Run, 2nd Health Brigade is putting the full breadth of deployed health capability into the field — including our allied health and specialist teams.

Dentistry. Pharmacy. Physiotherapy. Medical imaging. And, for the first time in a field environment, a deployable CT scanner. 💥

During a visit from Commander 2nd Health Brigade, Brigadier Louise Martin, and RSM WO1 Dan Gissane, members demonstrated how these capabilities come together within a Role 2 Enhanced treatment facility to support our people wherever the fight takes them.

Because delivering combat health support takes a whole health team. 🇦🇺💪

Meeting the Troops!🪖 Commander of the 2nd Health Brigade (2BDE), Brigadier Louise Martin visits troops taking part in Ex...
13/08/2026

Meeting the Troops!🪖

Commander of the 2nd Health Brigade (2BDE), Brigadier Louise Martin visits
troops taking part in Exercise Pozières Run at Queensland's Shoalwater Bay Training Area.💥

2 BDE members are being exercised across a range of specialist medical capabilities, in direct support of the Australian combat troops taking the fight to the enemy.🇦🇺

The 1st Australian Division and the entirety of its combined arms and fires system is being tested across Northern Queensland, including its medical response and command and control.💪

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