Human Health and Performance
We’re optimizing warfighter health from every angle, maximizing force readiness and resilience across domains.
Unlocking Human Performance Wherever the Mission Takes You
Partner with Battelle to prioritize your most valuable asset—your people. With over 90 years of experience advancing human health and performance, we modernize and optimize readiness through science-based solutions. Our team accelerates the delivery of advanced capabilities for next-generation mission success, applying risk-informed decision support to complex challenges across domains, from training and mission execution to rehabilitation and beyond.
Our team of over 2,600 health experts combines a deep knowledge of biology, chemistry and advanced materials with long-standing experience in medical countermeasures, occupational health and medical device development to augment human capacity and well-being for civilians, warfighters, and veterans alike.
Holistic Health and Performance Enabling Mission Success
From austere battlespaces and long-duration space flights to acute care at home, integrated health and human performance is critical to mission success. As new threats to health continue to emerge, we must adapt our focus and capabilities to meet these new challenges through physical and cognitive health.
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Prevent
Deliver timely interventions, anticipate injuries, and prevent illness through our expertise in transforming occupational, environmental, and public health data into actionable insights.
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Prepare
Improve safety and survival in high-stakes environments with data-driven solutions—advancing medical countermeasures, combat casualty care, and predictive analytics to address large-scale health threats and emerging infectious diseases.
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Prevail
Equip warfighters with the tools they need, through advanced human performance technologies and decision support.
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Preserve
Promote rapid and effective recovery through integrated physical, psychological, and cognitive health solutions—optimizing readiness and supporting warfighters and families beyond the mission.
Operational Excellence
At Battelle, we combine logistical and large-scale program management expertise, state-of-the-art software applications, and scientific excellence to optimize organizational performance and deliver measurable impact.
Good Data for Better Performance
Utilizing innovative analytical methods, we turn complex health data into clear, strategic guidance—helping leaders make smarter, more agile decisions for force optimization.
Our Insights
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May 21, 2026 Health
Critical Conversations in SOF: We Know Sleep Matters. Now What?
Poor and interrupted sleep is simply a reality of SOF life.That’s why sleep is increasingly recognized within SOF not as a wellness issue, but as a readiness variable that the force must treat. The question is how we apply what the research already tells us, at scale, across the force.
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Apr 29, 2026 Health
Critical Conversations in SOF: Suicide in the Military
There is no more difficult conversation in this work than the one that follows suicide. It not about a single loss. It is about ripple effects that extend across families, teams, and communities. It changes families. It stays with teammates. It challenges leaders. And it leaves questions that do not resolve quickly or cleanly.
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Apr 08, 2026 Health
Critical Conversations in SOF: The Family, Seen and Understood
For years, when we talked about military families within the Special Operations community, the narrative centered on grit. Resilience. Quiet sacrifice. And if this were simply about any one of those, or even all of them together, we would be fine. But it is not.
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Mar 26, 2026 Health
Critical Conversations in SOF: Brain Injury Risk and Reality
In a recent conversation with a group of operators, we had a real, unfiltered discussion about brain injury: what they’ve experienced and seen in their teammates, what they’ve pushed through, and what it has cost over time.
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Mar 11, 2026 Health
Critical Conversations in SOF: Engineering the Cognitive Edge
In Special Operations, cognitive performance is not incidental. It is operational.
Our Solutions
Chemical and Biological Countermeasures
Neurotechnology
Predictive Analytics
Health Readiness and Response
Advanced Technology Development
Performance Optimization
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Healthcare Quality Solutions
Our team can help you develop high-quality, effective healthcare solutions to solve our world's most difficult challenges. -
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Precision Public Health
Battelle delivers the right intervention, to the right population, at the right time. Our interdisciplinary team of public health experts, data scientists and molecular geneticists improve health outcomes. -
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Outbreak Preparedness and Response
Addressing infectious disease outbreaks through end-to-end, multi-disciplinary research to rapidly understand, treat, prevent, and eliminate novel, emerging, and highly virulent viruses. -
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Epidemiology
Battelle brings a deep understanding of predictive analytics solutions for public health at the intersection of science, technology, and policy.
By the Numbers
3150 +
patents and counting
3000
SMEs across a wide variety of expertises
90 +
years of applied science experience
Profit With A Purpose
Our Experts
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Alison Messick
Director of Warfighter Readiness and ResilienceAlison Messick serves as the Director of Warfighter Readiness and Resilience, leading enterprise-wide initiatives that strengthen the readiness and resilience of U.S. Special Operations Forces and other military teams. A former U.S. Marine and nationally recognized leader in military health and family systems, Alison brings more than 25 years of experience in advancing human performance, behavioral health, and family engagement. Her work drives innovation and integration across large-scale programs to ensure service members and their families remain mission-ready, resilient, and supported. -
Tal Sullivan
Senior Program Director, Human Performance and OptimizationTal brings over 30 years of leadership spanning military operations, program management, and strategic consulting. Most recently, he oversaw strategic initiatives and led efforts to support the Army’s Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) program. A retired U.S. Army Special Forces (Green Beret) Colonel, Tal held command and senior staff roles from tactical to strategic in Special Operations, including Joint Operations Group Commander at SOCCENT and Director of Operations (Sensitive Activities) at USSOCOM, and served as a senior military advisor within a national intelligence organization. -
Roya Mohadjer
Senior Vice President of Government Business DevelopmentRoya Mohadjer is responsible for government revenue growth across the Environment, Health, National Security and Infrastructure markets. Roya has over 15 years of business development experience in energy, envrionment, human health and performance, and defense systems and platforms. She fosters collaboration across government and commercial markets to optimize technology solutions for mission critical needs.
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Amy Vinturella
Senior Program ManagerDr. Amy Vinturella serves as a Senior Program Manager at Battelle, where she applies her extensive expertise in public health disaster preparedness, strategic planning, risk assessment, and program management. With over 20 years of experience, she has worked extensively with public health and emergency management specialists at all levels of government and the military. Amy's commitment to public health and safety is further underscored by her robust educational background, holding multiple degrees including a Doctor of Science in Environmental Science and Engineering.
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Carl Blaesing
Principal Research ScientistCarl Blaesing is a Principal Research Scientist at Battelle, bringing decades of experience in occupational health and safety, environmental health, emergency preparedness, and disaster response. Starting his career as an enlisted US Navy hospital corpsman, he rapidly climbed the ranks and earned a commission as an Environmental Health Officer. Carl applies his academic credentials, including a Master of Public Health in Environmental Health and a Master of Science in Emergency and Disaster Management, to large-scale health initiatives at Battelle.
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Justin Sanchez, Ph.D.
Battelle Technical FellowSanchez leads scientific advancement across our broad portfolio of life science offerings in medical devices, pharmaceutical research, biosecurity, and public health. So far, he has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, authored two books on the design of neurotechnology, and holds seven patents. -
Sam Colachis
Biomedical EngineerColachis focuses on developing assistive technologies that improve the quality of life for individuals with physical or cognitive challenges. He is a key member of the Battelle NeuroLife® program and played a major role in the development and clinical execution of a neural bypass technology that restores conscious control of the fingers and hands to individuals with spinal cord injuries.
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Gabe Meister
Research LeaderGabe Meister is a Sr. Scientist with 20 years of experience working in the discovery and preclinical phases of vaccine and drug development. Dr. Meister has led multiple programs at Battelle that have resulted in FDA approval of novel therapeutics for the treatment of rare and life-threatening diseases. Most recently Dr. Meister leads a diverse group of scientists and engineers in developing novel drug delivery technologies.
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Drew Cawthon
Business Line Director, Life Sciences ResearchDrew manages just over 300 staff engaged in pre-clinical and clinical research for both government and commercial clients. Drew’s team provides integrated scientific and technological capabilities in high hazard and biocontainment toxicology, assay development and validation services, and toxicology and pharmacology for support for investigational new drug studies. Drew and the members of his team also support clinical research through the Battelle Public Health Research Center in Baltimore, Maryland and provide onsite scientific support for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA.
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Nicole Brennan
Public Health Thought Leader and Division ManagerNicole brings over 20 years of public health and healthcare quality expertise to Battelle’s Health Research Division. She leads a team of domestic and international health researchers, scientists and practitioners with expertise in diverse aspects of health science, including healthcare quality measurement, environmental health, genomics, gerontology, behavioral science, preparedness, and military health. Nicole and the members of her team enable discovery to decision support through applied science.
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Transforming Innovation for Impact
Our extensive intellectual property (IP) portfolio showcases our ability to transform cutting-edge innovation into practical, real-world solutions that improve health and enhance performance. Each technology represents a problem solved, an idea made tangible, and a step forward in our mission to leverage science and technology for a safer, healthier, more secure world.