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Defense Centers for Public Health – Aberdeen, located at Aberdeen Proving Ground South, hosted more than 500 staff, guests and officials April 5, 2023, for a ribbon-cutting launching the new 280,000-square-foot Public Health Laboratory, which took eight years to complete and cost around $248 million. Pictured from left: Army Maj. Gen. Robert Edmonson II, APG Senior Commander and Commanding General U.S. Army Communications–Electronics Command; Dr. Lester Martinez-Lopez, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; Army Lt. Gen. Telita Crosland, Director, Defense Health Agency; Rear Adm. Brandon Taylor, Director, DHA Public Health; Army Col. Alisa Wilma, Director, Defense Centers for Public Health–Aberdeen; and Army Col. Estee Pinchasin, Baltimore District Commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (Defense Centers for Public Health-Aberdeen photo by Graham Snodgrass)
