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Post-deployment Health
Post-deployment Re-integration is a portfolio within Health Services Research and Development that addresses issues related to reintegration of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom veterans, including outcomes of short-term rehabilitation, adjustments to returning to civilian life, risk and resilience factors, epidemiological and measurement studies related to poly-trauma, screening instruments for early identification, and epidemiological and intervention studies related to combat-related neuro-trauma, including traumatic brain injury, cervical spinal cord injury, and sensory loss. Studies related to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) if focused on screening, epidemiology, or adjustment, or as a part of poly-trauma conditions are included in this portfolio. (PTSD intervention studies may be included in the mental health portfolio). Current studies in the portfolio include access to rehabilitation services, classification of poly-trauma conditions, screening and barriers to treatment-seeking for PTSD, interventions for combat-related sensory loss, and cost and utilization for prostheses.
Applications may be submitted in response to the OEF/OIF Deployment Health solicitation on the ORD website or the Combat Casualty Neuro-trauma solicitation, or as a general investigator-initiated proposal.
For additional information about the Post Deployment Health portfolio, please contact:
Patrice Robinson
Post Deployment Health Scientific Program Manager
Health Services Research and Development (124-M)
Email: patrice.robinson@va.gov
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