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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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Promotion Information
Promotion Board Recommendations
The promotion board will make a promotion recommendation. The majority recommendation (at least 3 of 5 board members) becomes the overall board recommendation.
For the Permanent Grade there are two options:
Recommend - This means that if the success rate is 100 percent, the board feels this officer should be promoted. A board‘s recommendation alone does not necessarily mean the officer will be promoted; the board’s numerical score must also rank the officer high enough to be above the cut-off line, based on the success rates (See Promotion Process in the Table of Contents).
Not Recommend -This means that regardless of the score or success rate, the board feels this officer should not be promoted and should be reviewed for retention in the Corps.
If an officer gets an overall board recommendation of “Not Recommend” two consecutive years in a row in the permanent grade, he/she will be referred to an Involuntary Retirement/Separation Board. The promotion board members are instructed of the consequences of a “Not Recommend” and do not make this decision lightly.
For the Temporary Grade there are two options:
Recommend -This means that if the success rate is 100 percent, the board feels this officer should be promoted. A board’s recommendation alone does not necessarily mean the officer will be promoted; the board’s numerical score must also rank the officer high enough to be above the cut-off line, based on the success rates (See Promotion Process in the Table of Contents).
Not Recommend This means that regardless of the score or success rate, the board feels this officer should not be promoted and should be reviewed for retention in the Corps. Officers will also receive an automatic “not recommend” if they were reported by Readiness and Deployment Operations Group (RedDOG) as not meeting readiness standards at the time of the December quarterly check.
If a Promotion Board recommends that an officer be promoted and he/she has no adverse actions, an officer may be considered for promotion until successful, unless the officer scores/ranks in the bottom 10% for their category and grade three consecutive years. Officers who score/rank in the bottom 10% three consecutive years are removed from Temporary Grade promotion eligibility and referred to a Retention Review Board for further evaluation.