Question: What is the acronym for the public health agency within the Department of Health and Human Services has Julie Gerberding as an administrator?

The Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS) is an operating agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and the managing personnel body for the United States Public Health Service.  The office is under the direction of the Assistant Secretary for Health, who serves as the senior uniformed advisor on public health and science issues to the Department Secretary.  The Office serves as the focal point for leadership and coordination across the Department in public health and science, provides direction to program offices within OPHS, and provides advice and counsel on public health and science issues to the Secretary. <SEP> The United States Assistant Secretary for Health (ASH) serves as the Secretary of Health and Human Services's primary advisor on matters involving the nation's public health and, if serving as an active member in the regular corps, is the highest ranking uniformed officer in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC).  The ASH oversees all matters pertaining to the Public Health Service (PHS), the main division of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), for the Secretary as well as provide strategic and policy direction for the PHSCC.  The PHS comprises almost all the agency divisions of the HHS as well as the PHSCC, a uniformed service of more than 6,700 health professionals who serve at the HHS, other federal agencies, and/or are assigned details to the armed forces.  The ASH is a civilian or a uniformed member of the regular corps and is nominated for appointment by the President.  The nominee must also be confirmed by the Senate.  The ASH serves a four-year term of office at the pleasure of the President.  If the appointee is a serving member of the regular corps, he or she is also appointed as a four-star admiral in the regular corps.  The President may also nominate a civilian appointee to also be appointed a direct commission into the regular corps if the nominee so chooses.  As such the position of ASH is the only office in the PHS that merits a four-star grade in the regular corps.  The current Acting Assistant Secretary for Health is Don Wright. <SEP> Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H. (born August 22, 1955), is an American infectious disease expert and the former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). <SEP>  The agency focuses on minimizing human health risks associated with exposure to hazardous substances.  It works closely with other federal, state, and local agencies; tribal governments; local communities; and healthcare providers.  Its mission is to "Serve the public through responsive public health actions to promote healthy and safe environments and prevent harmful exposures." The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is a federal public health agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services.  ATSDR was created as an advisory, nonregulatory agency by the Superfund legislation and was formally organized in 1985.