PACE ORGANIZATIONAL CHART

PACE organized in accordance to the following organizational chart:

PACE PROGRAM

• Full time employees with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH)
• Focus: President's Initiative - Ending the HIV Epidemic in the United States
• Develop, implement and evaluate public health interventions through community to reduce new HIV infections.
• Three Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Regions (IV, VI, and IX) in 48 counties
• Operation Change the Map
  • Develop short and long term action plans to:
    • Assess community needs in the regions
    • Assist HHS partners in Eliminating HIV

PACE TEAM

• Volunteers
• Focus: Implement public health interventions in communities based on local needs based on HHS priorities
• Office of the Surgeon General (OSG) Chartered Group

SURGEON GENERAL EDUCATION TEAMS (SGETs)

• Volunteers under OSG appointed leadership
• Focus: Implement public health interventions in comunities based on OASH and SG priorities
• OSG Chartered Group

Executive Directors

• Responsible for administration of the PACE Team and oversee all regional activities.

Chief of Staff

• Compiles activities reports from regional leads and subcommittee leads
• Administers and manages PACE communication resources
• Provides oversight of PACE activities

Subcommittees

PACE subcommittees are responsbile for administering key aspects of the PACE Team

Communication

• Develop PACE promotion material
• Maintain PACE social media accounts
• Ensure PACE publications and media is in line with OSG and OASH Communications

Information Technology

• Maintain PACE public facing website and secured shared website (max.gov) for internal PACE documents
• Manage PACE database for tracking PACE activities

Outreach and Retention

• Advice PACE team on organizational issues related to PACE outreach and retention of its members.
• Increase PACE visibility through organizing and coordinating events

Presentation Development

• Create and maintain uniform presentations representative of public health messages by the OSG to be accessed and used by all PACE members.

Rules and Membership

• Oversee PACE governance documents
• Updating PACE standard operating procedures (SOPs)
• Determine process for appointing voting and non-voting PACE team members
• Maintain counts and contact information for all voting members
• Develop recruitment materials and maintain recruitment efforts

Recognition

• Determines eligibility for PACE individual, group, and regional awards
• Coordinates community partner recognition from PACE through SGETs as well as other PACE community recognitions
• Determine elegibility for PACE letters of appreciation and certificates of appreciation
• Coordinate eligibility and Commissioned Officer Awards Program submission for PACE team members to be recognized for individual and unit USPHS awards.

Regional Leads

• There are two regional leads that plan and execute PACE community outreach activities:
  • Regional East is for HHS Regions 1 through 5
  • Regional West is for HHS Regions 6 through 10