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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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Promotion Information
Reviewing Officials Statement (ROS)
NOTICE: The ROS is included in the annual online Commissioned Officer Effectiveness Report (COER).
For the 2021 evaluation year (1 October 2020 to 30 September 2021) and forward, paper/PDF ROS forms will not be accepted. The ROS must be completed using the online COER system.
The Reviewing Official Statement(ROS):
- Is a document in the Reviewing Official tab of the COER that allows the agency to provide input to the Promotion Board regarding an officer's promotion readiness.
- Is completed by the Reviewing Official who completes the officer’s annual COER (the second line supervisor - the Rater’s supervisor).
Should address the period in the position or program, or longer if the Reviewing Official has knowledge of your prior performance and contributions. - Contains a maximum of 3,600 characters.
The following factors are addressed in the ROS:
- Promotion Readiness: Do you recommend the officer for promotion to the next higher rank?
- Leadership: How does the officer take on a leadership role in the OPDIV/STAFFDIV/organization?
- Mission: How does the officer contribute to the mission of the OPDIV/STAFFDIV/organization?
Officers' Responsibilities, Instructions and Other Important Information:
- The ROS is required if an officer is up for promotion and optional if an officer is not up for promotion.
- Notify the Reviewing Official as early as possible if an officer is eligible for promotion. This will allow him/her ample time to prepare a thoughtful, quality product before deadlines to submit the COER/ROS.
- The Reviewing Official may solicit input from the officer or other sources for his/her use in completing the ROS.
- The Promotion Board will only review the official 1-page ROS as it appears with your COER. Letters of recommendation that address promotion potential in any other form will not be accepted for documentation in the eOPF.
- If the Reviewing Official does not submit a ROS at the time of COER submission but elects to submit the ROS at a later time, he/she may do so by submitting a supplemental ROS form. The officer must initiate the supplemental ROS form within the online COER system.