Doctoral Training
DrPH in Advanced Practice Leadership in Public Health
The DrPH track in Advanced Practice Leadership in Public Health prepares advanced practice professionals for leadership roles in practice‐based settings such as health departments, non‐profit organizations, health services, international agencies, and community‐based organizations. Accordingly, the emphasis of the DrPH is placed on fostering advanced expertise and leadership in developing, implementing, and evaluating evidence‐based public health practice.
Why the USF DrPH?
The Leadership concentration has a proven record of training accomplished public health professionals to achieve their professional goals. Small cohorts allow for close engagement with faculty and strong ties with fellow students. A flexible curriculum allows students to personalize their training. Tuition is among the lowest of doctoral training programs. Leadership development and applied learning ensure that skills and knowledge are useful and used.
Who will succeed in this rigorous program?
You have at least three years of relevant professional experience, a masters degree, highly motivated to succeed, strong analytic skills and the basis to develop research skills, and can balance the demands of work and school.
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When you enter the leadership program you can also access stellar programs that can support your academic journey. These include:
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In addition to a full suite of online courses, students come to USF COPH three times in their first two years to attend institutes. The institutes combine coursework—lectures, small group work, projects—with opportunities to get to know your classmates and experience faculty in a way not possible solely in online coursework. The city of Tampa offers much in the way of fine restaurants, access to nature, and a cosmopolitan downtown.
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Michael Engelgau
Steve Freedman
Allison Howard
Fiona Lewis (Concentration Lead)
Kristen Migliano
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Doctoral students are required to demonstrate DrPH-competency attainment through an activity called the Applied Practice Experience (APE), while enrolled in the DrPH degree program. The Applied Practice Experience is designed to ensure that students have advanced-level practical experience outside of an academic setting.
Students work with their faculty mentor, and a practice-based mentor on a research project they have chosen. The APE product will be an extension outside of the student’s existing functions at their place of employment and will meet the needs of the organization selected.
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- Public Health Director
- Public Health Analyst
- Clinical Research Director
- Executive Director, Public Health Service
- Program Director
- Director of Operations
- Preventive Medicine Officer in Charge
- Emergency Preparedness Director
- Board of Health Director
- Community Health Director
- Workforce Development Director
- Infection Prevention and Control Director
- Chief Health Strategist
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To learn more, please contact Anthony Iannelli Jr., Assistant Director of Recruitment and Student Outreach, at cophinfo@usf.edu or leave a voicemail at (813) 974-6505.