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.

The USF Center for Global Health and Inter-Disciplinary Research (GHIDR) improves the health and lives of people afflicted by infectious diseases through the development of improved diagnostics, treatments and preventive mechanisms.

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 USF Center for Social Marketing uses community-based prevention marketing (CBPM) for systems change to develop, adapt, implement, evaluate, and disseminate evidence-based approaches to strengthen state and local health departments’ and community coalitions’ capacity for sustained disease prevention and health promotion.

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 Center for Applied Lifestyle Medicine (CALM) seeks to advance multidisciplinary community-engaged lifestyle medicine to address chronic health conditions.

One vital purpose of the USF College of Public Health is to protect worker health. To serve this end we have created the OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration Education Center. The Center seeks to engage and include the local community in our efforts to promote the health and safety of the Florida workforce and beyond. Specifically, the Center includes the contributions by the faculty, staff and resources of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health as well as those of the USF SafetyFlorida (OSHA 21(d) Consultation Program) and the USF OSHA Education Center.

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.

The Center’s primary mission is to advance the development of the multi-sector collaborative leadership necessary to intentionally improve the health and well-being of the public by strengthening the technical, scientific, managerial, and leadership competencies and capabilities of all leaders. To achieve these goals, the Center has reopened with a focus on Florida’s public health workforce and plans to expand its offerings in the coming months and years.

The Center’s mission is to provide technical assistance, QA/QC support and logistical assistance to WHO and other approved laboratories in Africa involved in the effort to eliminate river blindness (onchocerciasis).

The Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health is funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration to provide leadership training in MCH using an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach that is culturally competent and family-centered.

The mission of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center on Social Marketing and Social Change is to address the growing problem of non-communicable diseases through evidence-based social marketing and social change strategies.

The Florida Health Information Center (FHIC) mission is to conduct public health and health-related research for dissemination to all sectors of the population of the State of Florida: health care consumers, care givers, health care providers, health services professionals, legislative bodies and the faculty, students and staff at the University of South Florida and other colleges and universities, as well as to public health, health care, and health policy researchers and workers in the public and private sectors.