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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
- Medical Waiver Program
- Smoking Cessation
- Medical Affairs FAQs
- Tricare Active Duty Dental Program 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
- COER
- 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
- Long Term Training FAQs
- Officer Leave and Absence Request FAQ
- Promotions
- 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
- RedDOG 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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Officer Support
Officer Support is a dynamic team of Commissioned Corps officers and civilian staff who are responsible for many of the programs and processes integral to the careers and lives of current and retired Corps officers and their families. Officer Support is responsible for:
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Non-disciplinary Board processes including:
- Promotion Boards
- Commissioned Corps Awards Board
- Chief Professional Officer Selection Boards
- Flag Officer Promotion Boards
- Retention Review Boards
- Non-Competitive & Competitive Promotions
- The Commissioned Corps Officer Awards Program
- Commissioned Officer Effectiveness Reports ( COERs)
- Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF) maintenance and requests
- Processing online eOPF document submissions
- Maintaining hard copy eOPFs
- Corrections to eOPF documents through PHSOPFFix@hhs.gov
- Requests for information from officer files
- Privacy Act and Freedom of Information Act requests
- Commissioned Corps Management Information Systems (CCMIS) and USPHS.gov website content management
- Commissioned Corps Bulletin
- Most, but not all, communication sent via the Commissioned Corps Headquarters Listserv
- Licensure and Board Certification
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Administration of Corps officer leave and absence request policies.
- Visit the Officer Leave and Absence Request webpage for information on Absence Requests.
- Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS) enrollment
- Montgomery & Post-9/11 GI Bill and Transferability of Educational Benefits (TEB). Please direct questions
and concerns to phsdeersgibill@hhs.gov. - Self-service online active duty status confirmation.
Chief - CAPT Tracy Farrill
Email:Tracy.Farrill@hhs.gov
1101 Wootton Parkway, Plaza Level
Rockville, MD 20852Staff Member Professional Title LT Ava Adams Assistant Program Coordinator (Licensure) Ms. Tania Allinger Communications Specialist Vacant Commissioned Officer Leave Administrator Ms. Mary Boone DEERS & GI Bill Project Officer CDR Dorinda Lee Awards Program Coordinator Vacant Assistant Program Coordinator (COERs) Vacant COER/Promotions Coordinator Ms. Alex Potter Records Management Mr. Larry Reaves HR Technician (Awards) -
Non-disciplinary Board processes including: