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The USPHS Commissioned Corps is committed to our mission to protect, promote, and advance the health and safety of the nation. Public Health Service officers are trained and equipped to provide crucial public health leadership, assist with policy development, advance innovation and science, provide essential care services and respond to national and global public health emergencies. Through our Active Duty Regular Corps, our Public Health Response Strike Team (PHERST) and our Ready Reserve Corps, we remain responsive and available to rapidly deploy in the service of health.
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Commissioned Corps Headquarters
Director of Commissioned Corps Headquarters (CCHQ)
Rear Admiral Richard W. Childs, M.D.
As Interim Director of Commissioned Corps Headquarters (CCHQ), Rear Admiral (RADM) Richard Childs, M.D. is responsible for directing all functions regarding personnel, administration, operations, readiness, deployment, and policy for over 6,000 members of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. He is the principal advisor to the Surgeon General (SG) on activities and policies related to Commissioned Corps training, preparedness, activation, deployment, and total force fitness.RADM Childs also serves as the Commander of Operation Artemis, where he is successfully deploying more than 700 Public Health Service officers around the nation in a short time frame in response to supporting ACF’s Office of Refugee Resettlement Unaccompanied Children mission.
RADM Childs has a deep commitment to supporting the mission of the Public Health Service, as demonstrated by his leadership during multiple deployments. He commanded a rapid response deployment team to the coast of Japan that evacuated hundreds of COVID-19 infected/exposed Americans from the Diamond Princess Cruise ship and provided compassionate use Remdesivir for severe and critically ill passengers suffering with severe COVID-19, well before this drug was later proven to be an effective treatment for SARS-CoV-2. These actions earned him the USPHS Distinguished Service Medal with Valor, the Assistant Secretary of Health’s Exceptional Service Medal, and the Humanitarian Service and Global Health Award. He responded to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, where he served over 2 months in Monrovia Liberia as a Chief Medical Officer (CMO), caring for Ebola patients in the Monrovia Medical Unit (MMU). In recognition of his accomplishments to advance the diagnostic and therapeutic capacity of this Ebola treatment unit during that deployment, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal from the Office of the Surgeon General.
RADM Childs serves as the Clinical Director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Following his fellowship, he was appointed a tenure-track investigator in the Hematology Branch of the NHLBI. He received tenure at the NIH in 2006, where he continues to run a translational research lab that conducts first in human research in bone marrow transplantation and adoptive tumor immunotherapy. His seminal discovery that allogeneic stem cell transplantation could be an effective immunotherapy to eradicate metastatic renal cell carcinoma was published the New England Journal of Medicine. He is board certified in medical oncology and has performed more than 600 experimental bone marrow stem cell transplants at the NIH, he holds more than 30 patents related to NK and T-cell based immunotherapy, and has published over 240 original research papers as the lead or senior author in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet, Nature Medicine, and Nature.
In his role as NHLBI Clinical Director, he oversees one of the NIH’s largest clinical and translational science programs, directing an office with more than 160 staff members who have oversight of approximately 350 clinical researchers conducting over 250 investigator-initiated clinical trials. As Clinical Director, he spearheaded and operationalized a multi-million dollar strategic plan in 2015 that completely revamped his institute’s research infrastructure, revitalizing NHLBI’s clinical research enterprise which substantially improved and expanded its clinical research footprint and productivity.
RADM Childs was elected into the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the NIH Director’s Scientific Medal Award, the NIH Clinical Center’s Distinguished Clinical Teacher Award, and the American College of Physicians (ACP) National Award for Outstanding Work in Science as Related to Medicine.
In 1995, RADM Childs received his commission in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps when he joined the National Cancer Institute and Hematology at the NHLBI as a medical Oncology Fellow. He was promoted to Rear Admiral in 2016 and in 2020 received his 2d star.
RADM Childs graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in 1987 and Georgetown University Medical School in 1991. He completed his internship, residency, and a Chief Residency in internal medicine at the University of Florida in Gainesville.