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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
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- Household Goods Officers
- Transportation
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- Table of Frequently Used Acronyms
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- Links
- Travel and Transportation Allowances FAQ
- About Medical Affairs
- Dental
- Active Duty Dental Program
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- Family Coverage: TRICARE Dental Program
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- Periodic Health Update
- PHU FAQs
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- 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
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- eOPF Status
- FAQs Practice Hours and Special Pay Changes
- Licensure
- Transcripts FAQs
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- 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
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- 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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Flag Promotions
We are honored to announce that this year 13 officers have been approved for flag-grade promotions by Secretary Burwell.
As the senior ranking officers in the Commissioned Corps, flag officers exemplify the core values for which Commissioned Officers of the U.S. Public Health Service are held in high esteem. Flag officers provide executive-level leadership within the Department and within the Agencies in which they serve. Our flag officers also carry the title of Assistant Surgeon General and, as such, we rely on them to support special initiatives and exhibit the highest caliber of public health leadership.
Please join us in warmly congratulating these fine officers!
Assistant Surgeon General, O-7 Grade, effective upon completion of administrative requirements:
CAPT Tecora Deneice Ballom
Regional Medical Director
South Central Region
Bureau of PrisonCAPT Wanda Denise Barfield
Director
Division of Reproductive Health
Centers for Disease Control and PreventionCAPT Christopher B. Buchanan
Director
Office of Direct Service and Contracting
Tribes
Indian Health ServiceCAPT Mark A. Calkins
Director
Division of Sanitation Facilities Construction
Office of Environmental Health and
Engineering
Indian Health ServiceCAPT David Philip Goldman
Assistant Administrator
Office of Public Health Science
U.S. Department of AgricultureCAPT Michael F. Iademarco
Director
Center for Surveillance
Epidemiology and Laboratory Services
Centers for Disease Control and PreventionCAPT Peter H. Kilmarx
Deputy Director
Fogarty International Center
National Institutes of HealthCAPT Palmer A. Orlandi Jr.
Chief Science Officer and Research Director
Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine
Food and Drug AdministrationCAPT Kelly M. Taylor
Director
Division of Environmental Health Services
Indian Health ServiceCAPT Michael Dean Weahkee
Chief Executive Officer
Phoenix Indian Medical Center
Indian Health ServiceCAPT Mitchell I. Wolfe
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Office of Global Affairs
Department of Health and Human ServicesAssistant Surgeon General, O-8 grade, effective November 1, 2016:
RADM Christopher A. Bina
Senior Deputy Assistant Director
Health Services Division
Bureau of PrisonsRADM Joan F. Hunter
Director, Division of Commissioned Corps Personnel and Readiness
Office of the Surgeon General