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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 Bulletin April 14, 2015
New Ebola Campaign Medal, Expeditionary Attachment and Return of the National Emergency Preparedness Award
The Surgeon General and Commissioned Corps Headquarters (CCHQ) are excited to announce that Acting Assistant Secretary for Health, Dr. Karen DeSalvo, approved important policy revisions to the Commissioned Corps Awards Program creating new PHS award opportunities.
New - Ebola Campaign Medal (ECM): [Under Design]
Campaign medals recognize a formal Corps operation that has a distinct and stated objective aimed at eradicating specific health crises or diseases, or significantly improving the health and well-being of a targeted population. The ongoing Ebola mission meets the criteria for a Corps campaign. Almost a thousand officers directly contributed to dozens of unique missions both foreign and domestic. These missions target eradicating the disease at its source in West Africa, guarding against disease transmission at airport quarantine stations, performing critical vaccine research, or supporting forces deployed in the field. To recognize officers who were involved in this significant and historic response, a new Ebola Campaign Medal was recently authorized and is currently in design. Officers who serve on or after January 1, 2014 for a period of 14 or more consecutive days, or 30 non-consecutive days, in support of a Presidential or Secretarial activation of the Corps for an international Ebola mission will qualify for this new award.
New - Expeditionary Attachment (EA): [Under Design]
The EA is an attachment or device worn on campaign medals or service awards. This attachment recognizes service in a specific location or theater of operation in direct support of a campaign initiative or mission deemed to merit special recognition. The Surgeon General will determine which assignments qualify for the EA.
Reactivation - National Emergency Preparedness Award (NEPA):
The NEPA was previously authorized and awarded up to 2006 under specific criteria. At that time, it was decommissioned as other PHS awards contained overlapping criteria. This award is now reactivated and refocused to recognize officers who serve honorably on a Corps-managed (as defined by 42 USC 204a(b)) response unit.
Officers who served a minimum of two consecutive years as an active member on a Tier 1 or Tier 2 Corps-managed response team qualify for this award. Awarding of the NEPA is retroactive to December 19, 2006 (the end date of the previous NEPA qualification period). Only one NEPA may be awarded during an officer’s career and subsequent award devices are not authorized.
Next Steps:
- CCHQ will work closely with the Institute of Heraldry to design the ECM and EA. The process, from release to the vendor through awarding to officers, could take up to nine (9) months. There is no nomination process for these awards. CCHQ will work with Agency liaisons to confirm officers who qualify.
- The NEPA design has not changed and is available now. However, submission for this award is coordinated through the Readiness and Deployment Operations Group (RedDOG) upon recommendation from Tier 1 and Tier 2 team commanders.
Commissioned Corps Instruction 511.01, “Awards Program”, is updated and available on the CCMIS website.
Reminder: Officers are not authorized to wear any award until credited with the award on their Promotion Information Report (PIR).
Please direct any questions to your agency Commissioned Corps Liaison or to the Commissioned Officer Awards Program Coordinator at COAP@hhs.gov
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