Full Name
Sean Friendly
Job Title
Deputy Director
Company
DHA Public Health Directorate
Speaker Bio
Mr. Friendly enlisted in the Army in 1989 and spent his first 4 years as a combat medic with two operational deployments, including Operation Restore Hope, Mogadishu Somalia. Upon Commissioning he was assigned to McDonald Army Community Hospital as an Environmental Science and Engineering Officer.
He held a number of Public Health Leadership positions in the Army to include: Commander of the 5th Medical Detachment (Entomology), Seoul, South Korea, where he reared and studied pesticide resistance in mosquitoes on the DMZ, Korean Hemorrhagic Fever in rodents and other zoonoses of military importance to the USFK; 1stMedical Brigade, Force Health Protection Officer during the initial phases of Operation Iraqi Freedom where he was responsible for establishing the Military public health network for all deploying forces assigned North of Baghdad; Commander of B Company, 21st Combat Support Hospital where he deployed the hospital to New Orleans in support of Hurricane Katrina Relief in Sept 2005.
In 2007, Mr. Friendly assumed an Army strategist position in the G-35 as Chief, Stability Operations. He retired in 2014 culminating his 24-Year military career as the Joint Public Health Program director in the Office of the Joint Staff Surgeon where he was responsible for serving as the principal subject matter expert and advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for all Public Health policy concerns relating to the Joint Force.
Mr. Friendly has been a member of the Defense Health Agency for seven years serving in a number of developmental position in the DoD Public Health enterprise. He served as the Strategy Lead for the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance Branch (GEIS), the Operations Chief for the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division and now the Deputy Director for the Defense Health Agency Public Health Directorate.
Sean has an MPH from the Texas Medical Center, Houston Texas, and a Certificate in US Defense Strategy from the Army War College.
His awards and decorations include the Bronze Star, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal w/4OLC, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement
Medal W2 OLC, Meritorious Unit Award, and Expert Field Medical Badge.
He is married to the former Yolanda Hernandez-Torres, also a 22-year Army Veteran. They are extremely proud of their 3 daughters and currently reside in Manassas, Virginia.
He held a number of Public Health Leadership positions in the Army to include: Commander of the 5th Medical Detachment (Entomology), Seoul, South Korea, where he reared and studied pesticide resistance in mosquitoes on the DMZ, Korean Hemorrhagic Fever in rodents and other zoonoses of military importance to the USFK; 1stMedical Brigade, Force Health Protection Officer during the initial phases of Operation Iraqi Freedom where he was responsible for establishing the Military public health network for all deploying forces assigned North of Baghdad; Commander of B Company, 21st Combat Support Hospital where he deployed the hospital to New Orleans in support of Hurricane Katrina Relief in Sept 2005.
In 2007, Mr. Friendly assumed an Army strategist position in the G-35 as Chief, Stability Operations. He retired in 2014 culminating his 24-Year military career as the Joint Public Health Program director in the Office of the Joint Staff Surgeon where he was responsible for serving as the principal subject matter expert and advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for all Public Health policy concerns relating to the Joint Force.
Mr. Friendly has been a member of the Defense Health Agency for seven years serving in a number of developmental position in the DoD Public Health enterprise. He served as the Strategy Lead for the Global Emerging Infections Surveillance Branch (GEIS), the Operations Chief for the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division and now the Deputy Director for the Defense Health Agency Public Health Directorate.
Sean has an MPH from the Texas Medical Center, Houston Texas, and a Certificate in US Defense Strategy from the Army War College.
His awards and decorations include the Bronze Star, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal w/4OLC, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement
Medal W2 OLC, Meritorious Unit Award, and Expert Field Medical Badge.
He is married to the former Yolanda Hernandez-Torres, also a 22-year Army Veteran. They are extremely proud of their 3 daughters and currently reside in Manassas, Virginia.
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