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.