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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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Contact Us
Commissioned Corps Headquarters E-Mail Resources
Commissioned Corps Headquarters (CCHQ), is within the Office of the Surgeon General (OSG), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), US. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). CCHQ is responsible for all functions regarding personnel career management, administration, medical affairs, recruitment, assignments, operations, readiness, deployment, and policy for the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service. Under the leadership of the Office Director, who reports to the Office of the Surgeon General, provides staff support for executing the mission of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. CCHQ provides services to over 13,000 Active Duty and Retirees to duty stations around the world and is located in Rockville, Maryland.
Below is a list of email directories with description to submit questions to:
Administrative Services Personnel Records Request For personnel records requests PHSCCHQ RecordsManagement Request@hhs.gov Call to Active Duty Travel For questions related to travel for call to active duty PHScadtravel@hhs.gov Official Personnel Folder (OPF) FIX For requesting corrections of documents or document placement in the eOPF Personnel File PHSopffix@hhs.gov Personnel File For uploading documents to officers personnel files PHSopfdocs@hhs.gov Travel For questions related to travel for active duty officers PHSTravel@hhs.gov Financial Services Financial Services For payroll inquiries and general questions about Active Duty officer compensation PHSCompensation Branch@hhs.gov Blended Retirement System For general questions about the Blended Retirement System PHSBRS@hhs.gov Medical Affairs Medical Affairs For questions to the Medical Affairs PHSMACCHQ@hhs.gov Call to Active Duty Medical Clearance For questions regarding the applicant medical clearance process PHSCAD Medical@hhs.gov Dental Applicants For dental applicant questions PHSapplicantdental @hhs.gov MAB Dental For questions about the Active Duty Dental Program or PHU Dental exam MABDental@hhs.gov Deployment Medical Officer For questions related to health concerns while deployed or on PHS TDY training orders PHSDMOCCHQ@hhs.gov Immunizations For inquiries about immunizations, submitting immunizations records PHScc immunizations@hhs.gov Medical Affairs Evaluations For questions about Medical Affairs evaluation PHSMAES@hhs.gov Personnel and Career Management Absence Request/Leave* For questions pertaining to leave and absence request PHSAbsence request@hhs.gov Commissioned Officer Awards Program* For questions pertaining to the officer awards program PHSCOAP@hhs.gov For DoD/non-PHS award questions PHSdodnphsawards @hhs.gov For prior service award questions PHSpriorsawards @hhs.gov For award corrections questions PHScorrections@hhs.gov COER Questions* For questions pertaining to COERS PHSCoers@hhs.gov Licensure For questions pertaining to licensure and transcripts PHSLicensure@hhs.gov Adverse Actions For questions pertaining to officer adverse action PHSAdverse Actions@hhs.gov DEERS and GI Bill Helpdesk For questions about DEERS and the GI Bill PHSdeersgibill@hhs.gov Long Term Training For questions pertaining to long term training PHSlongterm training@hhs.gov Promotions Information Report (PIR) For questions pertaining to officer PIR PHSPIR@hhs.gov Practice Hours For questions pertaining to officer Practice Hours PHSpracticehours @hhs.gov Promotions For questions pertaining to promotions PHSpromotions@hhs.gov * Contact Commissioned Corps Agency Liaison first Policy and Evaluation Uniforms For questions pertaining to Corps uniforms PHSccuniform@hhs.gov Policy For questions related to policy CCISPolicy@hhs.gov Readiness and Deployment Deployment For deployment-related inquiries PHSDeployment @hhs.gov Readiness For readiness-related inquiries, including weight management standards PHSReadiness@hhs.gov Preparedness For preparedness and field exercises-related inquiries PHSPreparedness @hhs.gov Corps Care For Corps Care-related inquiries PHSCorpsCare@hhs.gov Call to Active Duty Applicant Enrollment System (AES) Notifications For questions pertaining to AES Notifications PHSaes@hhs.gov Applicant Acceptance Documents For questions pertaining to applicant acceptance documents PHSaad@hhs.gov Applicants Board For questions pertaining to applicants board PHSaapboard@hhs.gov Call to Active Duty For questions related to active duty applicants PHSOS-CADQuestions@hhs.gov Costep For questions pertaining to the Costep Program PHScostep@hhs.gov Security Clearance For security clearance questions PHSsecurity@hhs.gov Separations and Assignments Assignments For questions about personnel orders, name changes, or statements of service PHSCCAssignments @hhs.gov Retirement Seminars and Information Series For questions pertaining to pre-retirement seminars and retirement transition information series PHSCCSeparations@hhs.gov Separation Information/Retirement For questions pertaining to separations and retirement PHSccseparations2 @hhs.gov Training Training For questions regarding Corps training (Not long term training) PHScota@hhs.gov OBC For questions regarding OBC training PHSOBC@hhs.gov Commissioned Corps Helpdesk Commissioned Corps Helpdesk For overall questions related to the Corps not addressed above Helpdesk Last Updated 1/19/2023