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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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Readiness
Deployment Preparation Plan
This is a new annual Readiness Requirement. The required form and tools are now available. The U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Commissioned Corps requires all officers to complete a Deployment Preparation Plan (DPP). This plan requires officers to proactively plan for the care of their family, children and personal and professional affairs prior to deployments and other duty related absences. By anticipating deployment challenges that will arise due to officer’s absence, officers can focus fully on their mission knowing that loved ones and home station responsibilities are well taken care of.
Officers are required to complete and submit an initial DPP annually by 31 March 2023. A DPP is valid for twelve months and is required to be updated when a change in circumstances occurs (i.e. birth of a child, adoption, divorce, dependent parent). You are required to utilize the official DPP form; please refer to the form on this page. The first readiness check will be performed on 1 April 2023.
LOCATION OF DPP:
You can find the Deployment Preparation Form and other helpful documents in the links below.
Most common oversights on an uploaded DPP submission:
- Incomplete caregiver sections.
- Listing a caregiver that will not be available (i.e. active duty officer).
- Scanning errors or illegible scans
- Missing acknowledgements and signatures
- Form is not dated
HOW TO SUBMIT THE DPP:
Officers must scan the document into a SINGLE PDF with all pages oriented in the proper direction. You can use a scanner setting of 200 d.p.i., if needed. The file must be uploaded through the Readiness section of eDOC-U using the document name, “Deployment Preparation Plan.” Please see the FAQ for further details.
If you have immediate concerns or questions regarding Deployment Preparation Plan, please review the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page and applicable policy. If you still have questions about developing a DPP, please contact Corps Care at PHSCorpsCare@hhs.gov. For questions about Readiness please contact RDB at PHSReadiness@hhs.gov. For technical issues please contact CCHelpDesk@hhs.gov.
Additional Resources for Officers
Last Updated: 2/6/23