Centers and Institutes
Center for Biological Defense
The first Center of its kind to be established in Florida and among the first established nationally, this Department of Defense funded Center in collaboration with a network of universities in Florida and the University of Texas at Austin and Texas Tech University, are members of the National Center for Countermeasures to Biological and Chemical Threats. Education, research and service are all part of the Center’s mission.
Center for Environmental/Occupational Risk Analysis & Management
The mission of the University of South Florida Center for Environmental/Occupational Risk Analysis & Management (CEORAM) is to clearly identify and characterize the risks associated with occupational, agricultural and environmental exposures to chemicals.
Center for Leadership in Public Health Practice
The Center’s primary mission is to improve Florida's public health system by strengthening the technical, scientific, managerial, and leadership competencies and capabilities of the state's current and future public health workforce. To achieve these goals, the Center includes three major programs: The Florida Preparedness and Emergency Response Learning Center, The Florida Public Health Education and Training Center and the Public Health Leadership Institute of Florida (a tuition funded leadership development program for Florida’s public health workforce)
Florida Health Information Center
This Center was created by the Florida Legislature to serve as a statewide Center for the acquisition and dissemination of relevant, policy-oriented health services research and other information to public and private health organizations in the state.
Florida Prevention Research Center
The Center is dedicated to the implementation of Community-Based Prevention Marketing (CBPM) to encourage voluntary health behavior change by individuals, groups and communities. CBPM is implemented through demonstration projects that tackle issues such as adolescent smoking and alcohol initiation.
OSHA Consultation Program
The Consultation program provides free onsite consultations and training to Florida small businesses to help employers reduce work-related accidents, lower workers’ compensation costs and comply with OSHA regulations. This program based in the department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
OSHA Training Institute Education Center
This new Center supports OSHA’s mission to protectworker health and safety. Outreach training programs will targethigh-risk industries such as construction and nursing homes. This program based in the department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics (SIBS)
The Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics (SIBS), funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, is charged with stimulating undergraduate students’ interests in pursuing a graduate program in Biostatistics, and also to let the students explore a career as a biostatistical scientist working in health-related fields.
Suncoast Center for Patient Safety Research
The Center brings together health professionals from universities, the Veterans Administration's regional health care networks, community hospitals and other agencies to share and analyze data on fall-related injuries and medication errors. Researchers translate their findings into educational programs and clinical practices and technologies to make the health care system safer.
Sunshine Education & Research Cener (ERC)
Supported by $1 million yearly from NIOSH, the Center's mission is to promote health and well-being in the workplace through interdisciplinary education and research programs for physicians, nurses, industrial hygienists, occupational safety experts, employers, employees & labor representatives in Region IV, a nine state region in the Southeastern US. This program based in the department of Environmental and Occupational Health.
The James and Jennifer Harrell Center for the Study of Domestic Violence
This Center's scope includes spouse, child, elder, same sex partner abuse and other forms of relationship violence. The focus is on research, information-gathering, idea-sharing, training, policy analysis & advocacy.
The Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies
The Center is dedicated to determining the most effective strategies, programs and systems for reducing illness and death among mothers, their infants and young children. It is the lead agency for coordinating a federally funded Healthy Start initiative and has multiple sources of funding.
