Created by Congress in 1983 to accelerate progress in military medicine, the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine (HJF) is a global nonprofit organization providing investigators and clinicians scientific, administrative and program management services. HJF serves as a trusted and responsive link between the military medical community, federal and private partners, and the millions of American service families, veterans and civilians who benefit from the on the medical research advances and that result from this work.