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CCPAC Charter

Rationale

In a time of great change for public health, the officers of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) have a uniquely important role in carrying out the mission of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). The CDC Director’s Commissioned Corps Policy Advisory Committee (CC-PAC) has been chartered by the CDC Director* to assist the Director in effectively addressing ongoing changes in the PHS Commissioned Corps. In particular, the CC-PAC is charged with helping the Director to assess and to manage issues arising from the evolving relationship of CDC/ATSDR and the PHS Commissioned Corps.

Membership

  1. Members will be drawn from CDC/ATSDR officers volunteering for a term on the CCPAC.
  1. The CDC and ATSDR representatives to the Surgeon General’s Professional Advisory Committee (SGPAC) will serve as Chair and Vice-Chair respectively. They and their two alternates to the SGPAC will serve as an executive committee. The alternates will also serve as CC-PAC members.
  1. Officers serve as CC-PAC members at the pleasure of the CDC Director, but in general, they will be chosen based on recommendations of the Chair and Vice Chair according to the following criteria:
    1. Demonstrated level of knowledge/interest in Corps affairs
    2. Diversity of rank, category, geographic location, race/ethnicity, and gender, in order to achieve broad representation
  1. Normally, members will each serve a term of three years. To avoid excessive turnover at any given time, terms will be staggered, with one third of the Committee rotating off and being replaced by new members each year. Accordingly, the initial members will serve one, two, or three years, as determined by lot.
  1. On an as-needed basis, subcommittees may be formed to address specific issues. Subcommittees may utilize all relevant expertise and person-power available, including the services of non-member officers

Activities

1. Policy/Procedures.

CC-PAC will advise the CDC Director and assist the CDC Office of Commissioned Corps Personnel to develop and establish policies and procedures specific to CDC/ATSDR where PHS-wide policies have not been articulated or are insufficiently specific. In addition, the CCPAC will assist the CDC/ATSDR leadership in the development of input for PHS policy proposals that are under development. Where an agency need exists, the Committee may provide input and/or advise the Director on the possible need for CDC/ATSDR to propose new initiatives or policies to PHS. How existing, proposed, or developing policies would affect CDC/ATSDR’s workforce and its ability to carry out its mission will be a major focus of the Committee.

  1. The Committee will serve as a forum for discussion and evaluation of officers’ questions and concerns regarding the relationship of the Corps to the CDC mission
  1. The Committee will support and facilitate communication to officers of timely information from the various PAC meetings taking place in Rockville and Washington and from other relevant and reliable sources about the future and current activities of the Corps.
  1. Officers on the CC-PAC will be involved in the chain of communication on ongoing issues and developments and will communicate such information back to other officers at CDC and ATSDR as may be appropriate and in ways to be determined by the full CC-PAC.

* The Director of CDC is also the Administrator of ATSDR

Last Reviewed: March 29, 2005