United States Public Health Service - wikipedia United States Public Health Service United States Public Health Service Logo of the United States Public Health Service Flag of the U.S. Public Health Service Agency overview Formed 1798 ( reorganized / renamed : 1871 / 1889 / 1902 / 1912 ) Jurisdiction Federal government of the United States Headquarters Hubert H. Humphrey Building Washington, D.C. Agency executive Admiral Brett Giroir, Assistant Secretary for Health Parent agency Department of Health and Human Services Website www.hhs.gov/ash `` Public Health Service March '' The United States Public Health Service ( PHS ) is a division of the Department of Health and Human Services concerned with public health. It contains eight out of the department 's eleven operating divisions. The Assistant Secretary for Health ( ASH ) oversees the PHS. The Public Health Service Commissioned Corps ( PHSCC ) is the federal uniformed service of the PHS, and is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. Its origins can be traced to the establishment of 1798 of a system of marine hospitals. In 1870 these were consolidated into the Marine Hospital Service, and the position of Surgeon General was established. In 1889, the PHSCC was established. As the system 's scope grew, it renamed the Public Health Service in 1912. The Public Health Service Act of 1944 consolidated and revised previous laws and is the current legal basis for the PHS. It became the primary division of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, established in 1953, which later became the Department of Health and Human Services in 1979. Contents 1 Organization 1.1 United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps 2 History 2.1 Marine Hospital Service 2.2 Consolidation and expansion 3 Activities 4 Controversies 4.1 Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male 4.2 Syphilis studies in Guatemala 5 See also 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links Organization Eight out of the eleven operating divisions of the Department of Health and Human Services are designated as part of the Public Health Service : National Institutes of Health Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Indian Health Service Food and Drug Administration Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Health Resources and Services Administration Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration The three other divisions are designated human services agencies and are not part of the Public Health Service. These are the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Administration for Children and Families, and Administration for Community Living. The Assistant Secretary for Health is the senior official in change of the Public Health Service. The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health contains the following core agencies : National Vaccine Program Office ( NVPO ) Office of Adolescent Health ( OAH ) Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion ( ODPHP ) Office of HIV / AIDS and Infectious Disease Policy ( OHAIDP ) Office for Human Research Protections ( OHRP ) Office of Minority Health ( OMH ) Office of Population Affairs ( OPA ) Office of Research Integrity ( ORI ) Office of the Surgeon General ( OSG ) Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Office on Women 's Health ( OWH ) President 's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition ( PCSFN ) United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Main article : United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps The United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps ( PHSCC ) employs more than 6,000 uniformed public health professionals for the purpose of delivering public health promotion and disease prevention programs and advancing public health science. Members of the Commissioned Corps often serve on the frontlines in the fight against disease and poor health conditions. The mission of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps is to protect, promote, and advance the health and safety of the people of the United States. According to the PHSCC, this mission is achieved through rapid and effective response to public health needs, leadership and excellence in public health practices, and advancement of public health science. As one of the United States seven uniformed services, the PHS Commissioned Corps fills public health leadership and service roles within federal government agencies and programs. The PHS Commissioned Corps includes officers drawn from many professions, including environmental and occupational health, medicine, nursing, dentistry, pharmacy, psychology, social work, hospital administration, health record administration, nutrition, engineering, science, veterinary, health information technology, and other health - related occupations. Officers of the Corps wear uniforms similar to those of the United States Navy with special PHSCC insignia, and the Corps uses the same commissioned officer ranks as the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the NOAA Commissioned Officer Corps from ensign to admiral, uniformed services pay grades O - 1 through O - 10 respectively. According to 5 U.S.C. § 8331, service in the PHSCC after June 30, 1960 is considered military service for retirement purposes. Under 42 U.S.C. § 213, active service in the PHSCC is considered active military service for the purposes of most veterans ' benefits and for antidiscrimination laws. History Marine Hospital Service Main article : Marine Hospital Service The origins of the Public Health Service can be traced to the passage, by the 5th Congress of the United States, of `` An Act for the Relief of Sick and Disabled Seamen '' in 1798. This act created Marine Hospitals to care for sick seamen. They were initially located along the East Coast, at the harbors of the major port cities. As the boundaries of the United States expanded, and harbors were built on other coasts, so too were marine hospitals. The Marine Hospital Service was placed under the Revenue Marine Service ( a forerunner of the present - day Coast Guard ) within the Department of the Treasury. A reorganization in 1870 converted the loose network of locally controlled marine hospitals into a centrally controlled Marine Hospital Service, with its headquarters in Washington, D.C. This reorganization made the Marine Hospital Service into its own bureau within the Department of the Treasury. The position of Supervising Surgeon ( later titled the Surgeon General ) was created to administer the Service, and John Maynard Woodworth, ( 1837 - 1879 ), was appointed as the first incumbent in 1871. He moved quickly to reform the system and adopted a military model for his medical staff ; putting his physicians in uniforms, and instituting examinations for applicants. Woodworth created a cadre of mobile, career service physicians, who could be assigned as needed to the various Marine Hospitals. The commissioned officer corps was established by legislation in 1889, and signed by 22nd / 24th President Grover Cleveland. The scope of activities of the Marine Hospital Service also began to expand well beyond the care of merchant seamen in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, beginning with the control of infectious disease. The National Quarantine Act of 1878 vested quarantine authority to the Marine Hospital Service. and the National Board of Health. The Marine Hospital Service was assigned the responsibility for the medical inspection of arriving immigrants at sites such as Ellis Island in New York Harbor. Because of the broadening responsibilities of the Service, its name was changed in 1902 to the `` Public Health and Marine Hospital Service ''. As the emphasis of its responsibilities shifted from sailors to general public health and with the decommissioning of various old marine hospitals the name was changed again, in 1912, to just the `` Public Health Service '' ( PHS ). Consolidation and expansion In 1939, the Public Health Service was transferred from the Department of the Treasury into the new Federal Security Agency. At that time the National Institute of Health ( sic ) was already established as a division of the PHS. In 1942 the Communicable Disease Center, which would become the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was established within the PHS. All of the laws affecting the functions of the public health agencies were consolidated for the first time in the Public Health Service Act of 1944. In 1953 the Federal Security Agency was abolished and most of its functions, including the PHS, were transferred to the newly formed Department of Health, Education and Welfare. In 1955 the Indian Health Service was established upon transfer of these functions from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Food and Drug Administration, which traces its origins to 1862, became part of the PHS in 1968. In 1980 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare was renamed as the Department of Health and Human Services. The other four agencies of the PHS were formed between 1980 and 1992. Activities In the area of environmental protection and public health, a Public Health Service 1969 community water survey that looked at more than a thousand drinking water systems across the United States drew two important conclusions that supported a growing demand for stronger protections that were adopted in the 1974 Safe Drinking Water Act. The survey concluded, first, that the state supervision programs were very uneven and often lax, and, second, that the bacteriological quality of the water, particularly among small systems, was of concern. The 1963 Clean Air Act gave the Public Health Service in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare the authority to take abatement action against industries if it could be demonstrated that they were polluting across state lines, or of a governor requested. Some of these actions involved the Ohio River Valley, New York, and New Jersey. The service also began monitoring air pollution. the 1967 Clean Air Act redirected attention to larger air quality control regions. Controversies Tuskegee study of Untreated syphilis in the Negro Male Main article : Tuskegee syphilis experiment In 1932, the Public Health Service, working with the Tuskegee Institute in Tuskegee, Alabama, began a study to record the natural history of syphilis in hopes of justifying treatment programs for blacks. It was titled the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male. The study initially involved 600 black men -- 399 with syphilis, 201 who did not have the disease. The study was conducted without the benefit of patients ' informed consent. Researchers told the men they were being treated for `` bad blood, '' a local term referring to several ailments, including syphilis, anemia, and fatigue. In truth, they did not receive the proper treatment needed to cure their illness. In exchange for taking part in the study, the men received free medical exams, free meals, and burial insurance. Although originally projected to last 6 months, the study actually went on for 40 years. Penicillin - which can be used to treat syphilis -- was discovered in the 1940s. However, the study continued and treatment was never given to the subjects. Because of this, it has been called `` arguably the most ' infamous ' biomedical research study in U.S. history ''. Syphilis studies in Guatemala A USPHS physician who took part in the 1932 -- 1972 Tuskegee program, John Charles Cutler, was in charge of the U.S. government 's syphilis experiments in Guatemala, in which in the Central American Republic of Guatemala, Guatemalan prisoners, soldiers, orphaned children, and others were deliberately infected with syphilis and other sexually - transmitted diseases from 1946 to 1948, in order to scientifically study the disease, in a project funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health of the United States in Bethesda, Maryland. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton apologized to the Republic of Guatemala for this program in 2010, in light of the serious ethical lapses in moral judgement which occurred. See also Medicine portal Cadet Nurse Corps Human experimentation in the United States Public Health Service Act References This article is based on the public domain text History of the Commissioned Corps, PHS Jump up ^ other ( s ), Jarminator CMS 3.0 created by Dwayne Jarman, DVM, MPH - page ontent created by. `` Ensemble ''. dcp.psc.gov. Retrieved 26 February 2018. Jump up ^ Organizational Chart of Health & Human Services, 2007 Jump up ^ US Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health ( ASH ) ^ Jump up to : Redhead, C. Stephen ; Dabrowska, Agata ( 2015 - 10 - 13 ). `` Public Health Service Agencies : Overview and Funding ( FY2010 -- FY2016 ) '' ( PDF ). U.S. Congressional Research Service. Retrieved 2018 - 10 - 16. Jump up ^ `` HHS Organization Chart ''. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2008 - 10 - 24. Retrieved 2018 - 10 - 17. Jump up ^ `` Public Health Offices ''. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2016 - 03 - 21. 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Question: when was the us public health service founded
Answer: 1798