The Public Health Service Achievement Medal is a decoration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. It is issued to those personnel who display meritorious achievement and excellence in accomplishing the mission of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Activities warranting the award of the Public Health Service Achievement Medal could include advancement of program objectives, sustained above-average dedication to duty over a relatively short period of time, or a single act of distinction to the betterment of the United States of America in the area of public health.
The Public Health Service Achievement Medal is considered a civilian decoration; however, it is occasionally awarded to members of the United States military. In such cases, the Public Health Service Achievement Medal may be worn on active duty uniforms upon application from the service member.
Famous quotes containing the words public, health, service and/or achievement:
“On our streets it is the sight of a totally unknown face or figure which arrests the attention, rather than, as in big cities, the strangeness of occasionally seeing someone you know.”
—For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Most days I feel like an acrobat high above a crowd out of which my own parents, my in-laws, potential employers, phantoms of “other women who do it” and a thousand faceless eyes stare up.”
—Anonymous Mother. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 2 (1978)
“The masochist: “I send my tormentor hurrying hither and thither in the service of my suffering and desire.””
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“She was so overcome by the splendor of his achievement that she took him into the closet and selected a choice apple and delivered it to him, along with an improving lecture upon the added value and flavor a treat took to itself when it came without sin through virtuous effort. And while she closed with a Scriptural flourish, he “hooked” a doughnut.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)