On DoD: Lt. Gen. Douglas Robb, Director, Defense Health Agency

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On DoD: Lt. Gen. Douglas Robb, Director, Defense Health Agency

On this week’s edition of on DoD: An exit interview with Lt. Gen. Douglas Robb, the director of the Defense Health Agency. As we went to air, he was scheduled to...

Jared Serbu@jserbuWFED

October 28, 2015 11:00 am

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On this week’s edition of on DoD: An exit interview with Lt. Gen. Douglas Robb, the director of the Defense Health Agency.

As we went to air, he was scheduled to relinquish the directorship of DHA on November 2 and to retire from military service a few weeks after that following 36 years in the Air Force, including 20 as an aerospace physician. Robb is also the first director of the Defense Health Agency: he guided DoD’s newest combat support agency through its initial operating phase over the last two years before it reached its formal full operating capability on October 1, 2015.

Robb spoke with Jared Serbu at DHA’s headquarters in Falls Church, Virginia about how the agency got the buy-in of the military services to create a shared services organization for the military’s medical functions and why DoD leaders determined a joint health organization was necessary in the first place.