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On June 2, 2011, First Lady Michelle Obama, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, and Surgeon General Regina Benjamin launched MyPlate icon as a new reminder to help consumers to make healthier food choices. MyPlate is a new generation icon to make healthy food consumption.

VADM Benjamin mentioned the icon is easy to understand and emphasizes fruits and vegetables encouraging Americans to be healthy and fit.

The Public Health Reports (PHR) is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Public Health Service official Journal and one of the Nation’s oldest public health publications.

It is a resource that more Corps officers should contribute to and help guide. CAPT Jan Huy is currently acting PHR editor.

The Affordable Care Act called for the creation of the National Prevention, Health Promotion, and Public Health Council (National Prevention Council). Chaired by U.S. Surgeon General, VADM Regina Benjamin, the National Prevention Council consists of 17 Federal government executive leaders committed to promoting prevention and wellness. Under the leadership of VADM Benjamin, the National Prevention Council released the National Prevention and Health Promotion Strategy  June 16, 2011.

The new and historical Strategy, an inaugural national level approach to prevention, was presented in the Great Hall of the Hubert H. Humphrey Building in Washington, DC, by VADM Benjamin joined by government and community leaders...

May 21, 2011, marked the date, a beautiful day in Washington, DC at the Daughters of the American Revolution Constitution Hall, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS). Four services were represented with our own Deputy Surgeon General Boris Lushniak, Army Surgeon General Eric B. Schoomaker, Navy medical officer to the Marine Corps Michael H. Anderson, Air Force Surgeon General Charles B. Green. Together, with the accompaniment of the President’s Own, the Marine Corps Band, they welcomed 167 School of Medicine graduates awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine (MD) and promoted to the rank of 0-3, lieutenant or captain in their respective services, 60 Graduate School of Nursing graduates who earned advanced practice nursing degrees and 39 Masters and Doctor of Philosophy graduates...

On May 07, 2011, The 18th US Surgeon General Regina Benjamin presided as the Commencement Speaker during the 2011 University of North Carolina (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health Commencement Exercise held at Carmichael arena at UNC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina...

This summer, on Saturday, July 30th from 1900 to 2000 hours, the USPHS Music Ensemble will perform as part of a free public outdoor concert at one our Nation’s most respected and venerable monuments, the National World War II (WWII) Memorial. This event is going to be a momentous occasion for the ensemble and for the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, as hundreds of public spectators are expected to view the performance...

The Commissioned Officer Training Academy wishes to extend congratulations to graduates of the Officer Mid-Level In-Resident Course (OMC) 001.

OMC training is a 2-week course of study for mid-level Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service (Corps) officers. The Course builds on the foundations set forth in the Officer Basic Course and prepares the officers with knowledge, disposition, and skills necessary to serve as mid-level officers and the future leaders of the Corps...

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