http://health.usf.edu/publichealth/overviewcoph/mission-vision.htm
Mission: Our mission is to improve the public’s health through advancing discovery, learning, and service.
Vision: Our College of Public Health community will use its unique strengths and collective efforts to achieve prominence in advancing public health.
The COPH core values are:
- community engagement
- global perspective
- diversity
- leadership
- the professional environment
http://www.grad.usf.edu/inc/linked-files/Catalog%20and%20Policies/2014_2015/Section_23_COPH.pdf (page 4 of 76)
The College of Public Health's mission is to improve the public’s health through advancing discovery, learning, and service. Goals are related to building strong focused research programs that reward and encourage scholarship and creative activities, continual improvement of academic programs and student centered learning, a college culture that supports our mission, vision, and values, a strong sustainable infrastructure, and active service and meaningful community engagement.
The base of knowledge for public health comes from a variety of disciplines, ranging from social sciences to biological sciences and business, brought together by a commitment to improve the public's health. Thus, the field is open to students from diverse academic disciplines including Health Sciences, Education, Business, Communication, Mathematics, Social and Natural Sciences. Graduates are prepared for interdisciplinary focused public health careers as administrators, managers, educators, researchers, and direct service providers.
The College’s five departments are Community and Family Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Global Health, and Health Policy and Management The program in Public Health Practice is College‐wide.
Core content is directly related to addressing and meeting public health issues. Off campus or alternate calendar programs may reflect additional offerings to meet specific needs. The College accommodates the working professional as well as the full‐time student by offering late afternoon and evening classes, online delivery of courses and graduate certificates, and an executive M.P.H. for experienced health professionals.
The College hosts several College and Departmental based centers that augment the learning opportunities for students. A few examples include the Center for Biological Defense, Center for Leadership in Public Health Practice, Center for Positive Health, the Florida Health Information Center, The James and Jennifer Harrell Center for the Study of Family Violence, the Lawton and Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies, and the Florida Prevention Research Center.