Environmental Health Officers

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Environmental Health Officers

• Commissioned Corps of the
• U.S. Public Health Service
• -USPHS-

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• EHOPAC

• Marketing and Recruitment Subcommittee

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Our Mission
Protecting, Promoting, and Advancing the Health
and Safety of the Nation.
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Americas Health Responders
USNS Comfort

• Examples of missions
• Natural disasters
• Multistate outbreak investigations
• Mass gatherings
• Terrorist attacks (9/11, Anthrax)
• International humanitarian assistance

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Commissioned Corps Officers

• Over 6,000 well trained, highly qualified public
  health professionals.
• Essential component of the largest public health
  and response program in the world
• Highly motivated with an attitude of service

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Commissioned Corps Officers

• Desire to improve the health of humankind, both
  within and beyond our borders
• Enjoy the prospect of a highly varied and dynamic
  career

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How We Serve

• Environmental Health Protection
• Environmental Health Officer with the IHS
• Disease control and prevention
• Epidemiologist at CDC
• Biomedical research
• Researcher at NIH
• Regulation of food and drugs
• Consumer safety officer at FDA
• Mental health AODA treatment
• Therapist at BOP
• Health care delivery
• Physician at IHS
• International health
• Emergency and humanitarian response

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USPHS Commissioned Corps One of the Seven
Uniformed Services
Executive Branch
DHHS
DOD
DHS
Commerce
USPHS
Army
Coast Guard
NOAA
Navy
Air Force
Marines
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Disciplines within the Commissioned Corps

• Environmental Health Officers
• Physicians
• Dentists
• Nurses
• Pharmacists
• Dietitians
• Engineers
• Mental Health Specialists, (clinical
  psychologists and clinical social workers)

• Optometrists
• Physician Assistants
• Scientists/Researchers
• Therapists (occupational therapy, physical
  therapy, speech language pathology, respiratory
  therapy, and audiology)
• Veterinarians
• Other health-related disciplines

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A proud history
From Ellis Island To tribal lands. Across
America Around the World

• PROTECTING PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY...
• FOR 215 YEARS

Source www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/phs_history/int
ro.html
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Commissioned Corps Timeline

• 1798 Sick Disabled Seamen Relief Act
• 1870 Centralized Marine Hospital Service
• 1871 John Maynard Woodworth
• 1889 Formalized as US Uniformed Service of MHS
• 1902 MHS to PHMHS (Ellis Island/State
  quarantine)
• 1912 PHS broadened power investigate
  diseases, sanitation
• 2012 Over 6,000 active-duty officers within 13
  disciplines

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History
Environmental Health Officers

• Established as the Sanitarian category in 1943
• Strength grew from 75 officers to nearly 400
  today
• Traditionally focused on food sanitation, water
  and wastewater treatment, and vector-borne
  disease
• Now serving on the front lines in the Nations
  fight against disease undertaking highly
  specialized services in broad areas of public
  health

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Where We Are Assigned
(Not all agencies and programs are represented)
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What it takes to be an Officer in the
Commissioned Corps

• Meet Basic qualifications
• U.S. citizen
• Less than 44 years of age
• Medically qualified
• Qualifying degree from an accredited institution
  (varies depending on profession)
• Additional requirement
• Current, unrestricted professional license (if
  applicable)

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Some of the benefits

• 30 days of paid vacation per year
• Competitive starting pay that increases with
  promotions and years of service
• Noncontributory retirement based on a 20 to 30
  year career
• Full medical and dental
• Low-cost health and dental for dependents or no
  cost at uniformed services facilities
• Veterans Administration benefits
• Paid sick leave
• Thrift Savings Plan
• Use of military commissaries, exchanges, and
  other programs

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Five Pillars

• 1. Serving the needs of vulnerable or medically
  underserved populations,
• 2. Serving in hardship locations or difficult to
  recruit positions,
• 3. Being available for rapid deployment,
• 4. Requiring regular engagement with other
  uniformed services,
• 5. Addresses an important public health need but
  can only be filled with a Commissioned Corps
  officer

USPHS
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Duty Locations Coast to Coast
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COSTEP Opportunities

• Junior COSTEP
• One year in a qualifying program
• Two years in specific health disciplines
• Work one to four months during school
• No obligation after graduation
• Senior COSTEP
• Full-time students in specific public health
  disciplines
• At least eight months remaining in their final
  year
• Obligated to work for twice the amount of time
• Sponsored by the Corps

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Environmental Health in the insert your
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personal experience
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experience as an EHO
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personal experience
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experience as an EHO
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Surgeon General INSERT CURRENT SG
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Surgeon General as appropriate.
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Questions?

• For more information please contact
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• EHOPAC
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• Marketing and Recruitment Subcommittee