text: Appendix D
  Medical Intelligence
  Medical intelligence is developed through the leveraging of all-sourced intelligence
  assessments and products. Medical intelligence results from collection, evaluation,
  analysis, and interpretation of foreign medical, bioscientific, and environmental
  information that is of interest to strategic planning and to military medical planning.
  This information is pertinent to operations for the conservation of the fighting strength
  of friendly forces and the formation of assessments of foreign medical capabilities in
  both military and civilian sectors. Military intelligence includes only finished
  intelligence products produced by an authorized agency. Military Intelligence Soldiers
  and other intelligence professionals, through the intelligence warfighting function,
  collect, process and exploit, analyze, disseminate, and evaluate information collected
  from a variety of sources to generate intelligence. Medical elements require
  intelligence support in order to not lose the medical personnel's protected status under
  Article 24 of the1949 Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the
  Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the field by performing tasks that are
  inconsistent with their noncombatant role such as intelligence collection. To develop
  medical intelligence, information is gathered, evaluated, and analyzed on the following
  subjects:
  * Endemic, emerging, epidemic and pandemic diseases, public health standards and capabilities,
  and the quality and availability of medical services.
  * Foreign military and civilian medical capabilities, including MTFs, medical personnel, emergency
  and disaster responses, MEDLOG (to include blood processing), and medical pharmaceutical
  industries.
  * Integrated databases on all medical treatment, training, pharmaceutical, and research and
  production facilities.
  * Environmental risks that can degrade force health or effectiveness including: chemical and
  microbial contamination of the environment, toxic industrial materials and radiation accidents,
  and environmental terrorism.
  * Impact of foreign environmental health issues and trends on environmental security and national
  policy.
  * Infectious disease risks that can degrade mission effectiveness of deployed forces.
  * Foreign and applied biomedical and biotechnological developments of military medical
  importance.
  * Foreign scientific and technological medical advances for defense against CBRN warfare agents.
  SIGNIFICANCE OF MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE
  D-1. At the strategic level, the objective of medical intelligence is to contribute to the formulation of
  national-based policy. The policy will be based in part on assessments of foreign military and civilian
  capabilities of the medical or bioscientific community.
  D-2. At the operational level, the objective of medical intelligence is to support the development of AHS
  strategies that—
  * Identify the health threat.
  * Are responsive to the unique aspects of a particular AO.