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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 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
- PHS Award Recipients
- 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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Training
Advanced Leadership Development Program
Background
Technical Management Services (TMS) has partnered with the USPHS Commissioned Corps to offer the Advanced Leadership Development Program to senior officers within the Corps. TMS has provided leadership training for a number of DOD and federal civilian partners. The Advanced Leadership Development Program will provide PHS officers with support, curriculum, and training that will directly inform participants on leadership qualities, biases, and leadership competencies, inclusive of emotional and cultural intelligence, and interpersonal communication.
Description
The USPHS Advanced Leadership Development Program focuses on developing practical solutions to contemporary public health challenges in leadership and management on deployment and at your duty station.
The course is highly interactive and will tailor content to each officer based on their specific needs related to course objectives. Topics covered include emotional intelligence, building relationships, collaboration, coaching and mentoring, solving complex problems, and more.
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, attendees will be able to:
- Employ emotional intelligence and global perspectives to foster an inclusive, equitable, effective workplace.
- Identify and overcome implicit biases and faulty heuristics; individually, collectively, and systemically.
- Develop strategies for building and sustaining relationships and coalitions across a variety of boundaries: organizational, national, cultural, physical, and temporal.
- Create an organizational culture that maximizes inclusivity, collaboration, creativity, and resourcefulness.
- Coach, mentor, and empower members of the workforce to maximize their individual potential and organizational impact.
- Analyze issues define requirements, and manage leadership transitions in volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environments.
- Generate and analyze options to solve complex problems using a variety of creative and collaborative techniques.
- Evaluate tradeoffs in scope, schedule, and cost in complex projects.
- Make decisions ethically and effectively, employing intuitive and deliberate processes as appropriate to the circumstances.
- Supervise project implementation to achieve organizational objectives.
- Develop techniques to influence leaders across organizational boundaries to work collaboratively toward shared values and goals.
- Communicate strategically to achieve widespread buy-in to the organization’s values, vision, and mission.
Schedule:
Pilot*: March 27-March 31, 2023
Session 1: May 22-May 26, 2023
Session 2: June 26-June 30, 2023
Session 3: July 24-July 28, 2023
Session 4: August 28-September 1, 2023Location:
Virtual
Registration deadline:
45 days prior to the start date of training at 11:55PM EST
Course Length
5 days
Officers per Date
30
Ranks Eligible
O5-O6
Selecting Official:
CCHQ Training Branch
Application for TrainingAll those desiring to attend this training session must first complete an application for participation.
*The first course is a pilot program, and the participants will play a crucial role in helping to shape the future of this learning experience. Participants will be expected to provide feedback which will be utilized to refine and improve future iterations. Further courses will be offered throughout the fiscal year.
There is no tuition associated with this training. Officers' Agency will continue to pay for salary and benefits.
Participation in the Advanced Leadership Development Program is dependent on submission of required documents, supervisor approval, and nomination by the Deputy Director of Commissioned Corps Headquarters.
Minimum Qualifications Needed to Apply:
- No Basic Readiness lapses in the previous 1 year
- No active Adverse Actions
- Not on call for deployment during training timeframe
- Rank of CDR or CAPT
- Letter (maximum 1 page) explaining why the officer would be a good fit for the Program, how the officer plans to use the skills/knowledge gained to advance the mission of the Corps, and attesting the officer meet all conditions of service.
- USPHS CV
- COER scores for 3 previous years
- Supervisory approval (email or letter)
The application deadline for the Advanced Leadership Development Program will be by 11:55 pm ET 45 days prior to the start date of training.
Please use this link to access the USPHS Advanced Leadership Development Program Application.
If you need assistance or have questions, please email PHSCOTA@hhs.gov using the subject line: Advanced Leadership Development Program.
Last Updated: 4/27/23