The Master of Public Health with a concentration in Public Health Practice (PHP) is a fully accredited program that provides an opportunity to develop public health practice leadership skills, learn advanced tools to help protect and improve the health of the greater community and expand your knowledge of modern health care organizations.

Academic public health practice is a field of scholarship that seeks to bring together the pragmatic needs of the practitioner and the production of scholarly inquiry to contribute to the welfare of populations. Our curriculum provides the tools to work within the areas of surveillance, evaluation, education, and clinical care of national, state, and local populations. Our program at the University of South Florida, College of Public Health meets the particular needs of working public health professionals with an emphasis on the promotion of scholarship in public health practice.

For the convenience of practicing health-care professionals, we offer an Online MPH Program and an Executive (or Weekend) MPH Program.

The Centers within Public Health Practice

• The Center for Leadership in Public Health Practice is a State University System Type 2 Center in the USF College of Public Health seeking to contribute to the health of the public by developing educational, developmental, and training programs, services, and products for public health workers.
• The USF Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center (USF PERLC) is located within the Center for Leadership in Public Health Practice (CLPHP) in the College of Public Health at the University of South Florida in Tampa. It is one of two federal-grant-funded Centers within the CLPHP dedicated to developing and strengthening the public health workforce in Florida and nationally.
• The Florida Public Health Training Center is located within the Center for Leadership in Public Health Practice (CLPHP) in the College of Public Health at the University of South Florida in Tampa. It is one of two federal-grant-funded Centers within the CLPHP dedicated to developing and strengthening the public health workforce in Florida and nationally.
• The Center for Operational Readiness, Response, & Recovery (COR3) provides the first responder, emergency manager, homeland security professional, and public health preparedness staff with opportunities to enhance their knowledge of incident response, as well as opportunities to test themselves in realistic settings.