CDC Essentials
This system is used by Timekeepers, Time Clerks, Supervisors, and Employees at the CDC.
HINT: Associates submit their time and attendance here.
PHAP started this year.
When is 2007?
After associates have completed their monthly trainings courses in CDC TRAIN, they must send all certificates to this staff member in order to receive credit. Also, if associates have any technical problems or questions regarding CDC TRAIN, they should also contact this staff person to have their issue resolved.
Who is Jon Streater?
Email: khy7@cdc.gov
This department is who you contact if you have any issues with CDC-related technology.
Created in 1908 and incorporated in 1913, this sorority is the first historically African American Greek-lettered sorority and boasts a variety of notable members, including the current Vice President-Elect, Kamala Harris.
What is Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA)?
This system's nickname is synonymous with "simple". You can use this system to request leave, submit overtime, and learn data programs like R.
What is EASI?
Website: https://easi.cdc.gov
PHAP was piloted in this state.
What is Florida?
In the unlikely event that an Associate needs to go further than their CDC PHAP supervisor, this CDC staff person is the Acting Team Lead for the Program Management Team.
Who is Regina Gore?
Email: rsg1@cdc.gov
This site is the one-stop-shop for PHAP materials and job aids.
HINT: This site is replacing News-to-Use
What is The Compass?
This viral sensation was started on Instagram Live in March 2020 and and each show features two different artists who showcase their best hits.
What is Verzuz?
An automated system that puts associates in control of processing certain discretionary pay data items without using paper forms. Associates can also get their pay/leave statements, tax statements, and travel advice of payment using this online automated system.
HINT: Associates can access their leave and earnings statements, tax (W-2) statement or make adjustments to their thrift savings plan contributions.
What is myPay?
Website: https://mypay.dfas.mil/#/
PHAP uses this model as a tool to measure qualified candidates for the program.
What is BEST FIT?
(Big-picture thinker, Effective communicator, Socially and culturally inclusive, Thrive in a dynamic environment, Flexible, Intelligent, Tactile Learner)
These associates serve "to represent actively enrolled associates by facilitating communications and networking among associates."
Who are the Associate Networking Council (ANC)?
Email: phapanc@cdc.gov
This newsletter gives updates on what is happening in PHAP and PHAP workgroups. This newsletter also includes polls for associates.
What is the Low Down?
According to Walmart, this artist's sweet potato pie sold at a rate of 1,500 pies per hour during the recent Thanksgiving holiday.
Who is Patti LaBelle?
This system maintains contact and profile information for people working or affiliated with CDC. Users can access the system to update their own profile, such as their home/work addresses or professional certifications. This application alos provides a one-source data entry point that feed into emergency response-related systems.
What is CDC Neighborhood?
Website: http://neighborhood.cdc.gov/
PHAP serves to provide training and experiential learning to early-career public health professionals who contribute to the public health workforce.
What is the mission of PHAP?
If you were to have any questions or concerns regarding the relationship between you and your PHAP mentor, this individual CDC staff member would be the best point of contact to inquire about those questions/concerns.
Who is Bree Danner?
Email: nst3@cdc.gov
This monthly newsletter is written by associates for associates. It features different public health themes every month and highlights associates and their work.
What is the Associate Collective?
To become involved, contact Associate Collective Team Coordinator, Tarryn Michelson (pye5@cdc.gov).
This rap group managed to fit 1,967 ad-libs into their 2018 album, Culture II.
Who are the Migos?
This system links to several other sites, including ConcurGov (or E-Travel), the HHS Learning Portal, myPay, and the Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF).
What is the Access Management System (AMS)?
Website: https://ams.hhs.gov
This job series was created in 1948 in order to bring "new public health workers to the front lines of population health in state and local agencies... [which] shaped the delivery of essential public health services." This provided the platform for the creation of PHAP.
What is the public health advisor (PHA) job series?
This person would oversee the sending out of notification emails, invites and other information pertaining to the webinar and in-person trainings/calls.
HINT: This person also went through the PHAP program in 2014.
Who is Jonathan James?
Email: ypp1@cdc.gov
This system is a mobile texting tool used to facilitate symptom monitoring for all CDC field employees or employees deployed for CDC's COVID-19 emergency response.
What is TIM (Text Illness Monitoring)?
Until 2016, this show was the "longest-running first-run, nationally syndicated program in American television history", with over 1,100 episodes.
What is Soul Train?