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- Travel, PCS and Transportation
- Important Regulation Changes
- Travel & Transportation Entitlements Summary
- Permanent Change of Station (PCS)
- Temporary Duty (TDY)
- Junior COSTEP Travel Information
- Official Travel Forms
- Household Goods Officers
- Transportation
- Government Travel Charge Card
- Table of Frequently Used Acronyms
- Servicemembers Civil Relief Act
- Links
- Travel and Transportation Allowances FAQ
- About Medical Affairs
- Dental
- Active Duty Dental Program
- Previous Active Duty Dental Plan Member Portal
- Family Coverage: TRICARE Dental Program
- Retiree Dental Program
- Immunizations
- Periodic Health Update
- PHU FAQs
- Deployment Health Assessments
- Medical Waiver Program
- Smoking Cessation
- Medical Affairs FAQs
- About Personnel & Career Management
- Awards-Officer Awards Program
- Nominations Procedures and Forms
- Eligibility to Receive Awards
- Approval Levels
- Types of Recognition & Awards Criteria
- Non-PHS Awards
- Write-Up (Narrative) Guidance & Tips
- List of OPDIV Awards Coordinators (PDF, 67kb)
- List of Liaisons (PDF, 266kb)
- 2021 USPHS Awards Process Flowchart (PDF, 702kb)
- FAQs
- May 2022 Officer Awards
- DEERS Information (PDF, 139kb)
- Important Information Regarding DEERS and ID Cards During COVID-19 (PDF, 57kb)
- eCORPS Information
- Education Benefits Overview
- FAQs
- Forms
- Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF)
- eOPF FAQs
- eOPF Status
- FAQs Practice Hours and Special Pay Changes
- Licensure
- Transcripts FAQs
- Extramural and Intramural Training FAQs
- Officer Leave and Absence Request FAQ
- Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA)
- Veteran Health Administration (VHA) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Practice Hours
- Link to list of Professional Advisory Committee (PAC) Chairs (PDF, 19kb)
- About Policy
- Commissioned Corps Issuance System
- Equal Opportunity
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Political Restrictions
- Promotion Ceremony Protocol (PDF, 126kb)
- SGHG Drill and Ceremonies Manual (PDF, 3.39mb)
- Uniform Specifications
- PHS Hard Shoulder Boards and Sleeve Insignia (Male and Female) (PDF, 828kb)
- PHS Soft Shoulder Marks (Unisex) (PDF, 324kb)
- Medical Requirements for Promotion
- Force Readiness Information
- Link to list of Chief Professional Officers (CPO) (PDF, 348kb)
- Link to list of Liaisons (PDF, 266kb)
- Promotion Board Recommendations
- Not promoted? Now What?
- FAQs
- Board Composition and Scoresheet FAQs
- Officer Promotion Packet Verification System (OPPVS) Timeline & FAQs
- Promotion, Readiness and Compliance FAQs
- Permanent Promotion Eligibility Chart
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- Visit CDC.gov for Coronavirus (COVID-19) Public Health Updates
As Public Health Service Officers and America’s Health Responders, we stand ready to preserve public health and national security during national or global health emergencies. Our mission is to be out the door as soon as requested, as this is an “all hands on deck” situation. All Corps officers were placed on involuntary deploy or "alert" status effective Wednesday, March 25, 2020, irrespective of the 'on-call month' status. Under Commissioned Corps Directive 121.02, "Deployment and Readiness," as directed by Assistant Secretary for Health, Commissioned Corps Headquarters will deploy Commissioned Corps officers assigned to HHS OpDivs/StaffDivs, either voluntarily or involuntarily and without supervisory approval, who are not considered mission critical, for deployments, under the current National Emergency. Mission critical requests sent to CCHQ are not final until the request is approved by the CCHQ Director as per the POM 821.76 ”Deployment Procedures”. An officer with a non-HHS organization may be deployed in accordance with the Memorandum of Agreement/Understanding between the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the non-HHS organization.
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COER Information
Rebuttal
- If an officer does not agree with a rating or comment on the COER, the officer may submit a rebuttal. Officers are reminded that a rebuttal does not substitute as a remedy for a formal grievance. Commissioned Corps Headquarters (CCHQ) will not act on a rebuttal other than to include it in the eOPF attached to the associated COER.
- The rebuttal is submitted through the online COER system. Please see the COER System User Guide
for details on submitting the rebuttal. - It is recommended that this document be a professionally written explanation that clearly identifies and itemizes to which areas of the evaluation the officer does not agree. The rebuttal must only reflect comments or responses to the text and or scoring in the evaluation itself. Narrative comments that address personnel issues will not be accepted. The rebuttal is limited to 15,000 characters (~5 pages). Additional attachments will not be included.
- After an officer submits a rebuttal in the COER system, it is routed to the liaison for approval. The liaison will send a copy of the rebuttal to the Rater and RO. If the Rater and RO wish, they may submit a response to the officer's rebuttal. The Rater and RO must limit their rebuttal to 15,000 character (~5 pages). They rebuttal response is submitted through the COER system.
- The rebuttal is submitted through the online COER system. Please see the COER System User Guide
- Deadlines for Rebuttals
- Rebuttals for all COER types are accepted for inclusion into the officer’s eOPF within 90 days of when the completed COER is placed into the officer’s eOPF. The Rater and RO have 60 days to submit a rebuttal once the officer’s rebuttal is received. Rebuttals and rebuttal responses received after the specified time periods will not be accepted.
- Rebuttals archived into the eOPF after the final OPPVS COER pull on January 17th will not be available to the Promotion Boards
- Complaints and Redress – If the officer wishes to pursue further remedies, the officer must file a formal request for examination and necessary adjudication according to policy CC 211.04. Please refer to this policy for complete guidance.
Last Updated: 9/22/22
- If an officer does not agree with a rating or comment on the COER, the officer may submit a rebuttal. Officers are reminded that a rebuttal does not substitute as a remedy for a formal grievance. Commissioned Corps Headquarters (CCHQ) will not act on a rebuttal other than to include it in the eOPF attached to the associated COER.