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The student will be assigned one or more Faculty Advisor(s) during the their first year of the program.

Your Faculty Advisor is your main advisor throughout your DrPH experience. Profiles of each faculty member and their research and practice interests can be found on the COPH website. Look under Faculty and Staff on each department's home page. You can find the areas of specialization, and if you click on individual faculty, you will find more detailed information.

Doctoral Committee Form : DrPH Doctoral Committee Form(complete in Archivum)

Within the second year of the program, as you approach finishing your coursework, you should establish a doctoral committee. The doctoral committee will consist of a minimum of one Faculty Chair and one Faculty Member (or two Faculty Co-Chairs) from the faculty of the COPH, as well as an external public health professional who is a mentor to the student:

• Faculty Chair: You need a Faculty Chair (or co-Chairs) to lead your doctoral committee. This role is typically filled by your Faculty Advisor.
  
• Faculty Member: You need a second faculty member from the COPH to be on your doctoral committee. This position can also be filled by a Faculty Co-Chair if you have two primary advisors.
• Mentor: In the DrPH program, we require you to select someone in a senior level position in the field to be your external member. That person does not have to have a doctoral degree, but must be active in the profession and in a mentor role to you.
• Other members: You are welcome to have other members of the committee if your Faculty Chair recommends it.

To get your doctoral committee approved, you must obtain signatures of approval for the committee and submit the signed form. The directions are on the form, and once you have obtained approvals at all levels, you can submit the signed form to latonyaciara@health.usf.edu and also upload it to your student documents folder in Boxsubmit your committee appointment request through Archivum. The directions can be found in Canvas.