Overview of United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and its enlightenment

Abstract

United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (Commissioned Corps), being under the leadership of the Department of Health and Human Services, is an elite team of more than 6 100 full-time, well-trained, highly qualified public health professionals who serve in 13 careers on 11 professions. Established with the concept of a cadre of mobile, the Commissioned Corps features full integration of disease control and prevention, health care and recover. The officers of the Commissioned Corps , in a wide range of specialties and remarkable leadership, work at federal agencies nationally under normal circumstances and can be deployed as fully-featured strike teams into epicenter of disaster if there is a public health emergency. We characterized the US Commissioned Corps as organizing task-oriented, function-modularized, and cadre-mobilized teams, and enhancing interdisciplinary excellence and leadership of crews.

Keywords

• public health force
• public health service commissioned corps
• public health emergency response system