How do I get an Agency (i.e. CDC) deployment designated as a Corps deployment?
Officers who would like to have an Agency deployment designated as a Corps deployment in order to meet eligibility requirements for one of the four awards listed above can submit a memo to the Office of the Surgeon General, through the CDC/ATSDR Commissioned Corps Personnel Team, asking that the deployment be designated as an approved activation. These deployments must be in response to a major public health event, and so many Epi-Aids, HHE’s and other “routine” field studies will not be designated as approved activations. See a Global Response Service Award_Deployment Memo_Final. Contact your Staff Specialist in CDC’s Commissioned Corps Office if you need help writing this memo. Once the deployment is designated as an approved activation by the Surgeon General, you then submit that documentation with the awards package as part of the awards nomination process.
