Governance and Strategy

The FPH Strategy 2025-2030 outlines our mission of working with members to promote and protect human health and its wider determinants for everyone in society, leaving no one behind. This high-level strategy is supported by delivery plans for each of FPH’s five areas of focus:

1. Public health workforce strategy and development
2. Promoting health equity
3. Public health advocacy
4. Accelerating population health impact
5. Championing innovation in policy and practice

Our charitable objects are at the core of our strategy; (1) to promote knowledge in the field of public health, (2) to assure the highest possible standards of professional competence and practice, and (3) to act as an authoritative body for the purpose of consultation and advocacy concerning public health.

The document outlines the five pillars of our mission, which will drive the Faculty work, with our members always at the heart of everything we do as an organisation:

1. Playing a leading role in assuring an effective, valued and sustainable public health workforce.
2. Establishing, supporting and advocating for effective partnerships and coalitions for improving the public’s health and tackling health inequalities.
3. Promoting public health knowledge, learning and development to build capacity and evidence-based practice and policy-making.
4. Advocating for the reduction of inequalities and for the very best conditions for health and wellbeing to flourish.
5. Ensure the FPH remains a robust, financially secure and sustainable organisation leading from the front on equity.

We will work with our networks across the healthcare sector and in government to protect and improve the health of populations across the four nations of the UK and around the world.

FPH relies on our members to govern the organisation, plan its strategies and enable us to operate as the professional home for public health specialists. Our members develop and maintain our curriculum, design and deliver examinations, audit our CPD, support our training courses, lobby government, and in many more ways help us deliver on our charitable objects and protect the health of populations. To find out how you can get involved, you can visit the 'get involved' page.

Governance

FPH is a registered charity and a joint faculty of the three Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom (London, Edinburgh and Glasgow). Its charity number is 263894.

Although it is an integral part of the three colleges, it has its own officers, manages its own affairs through a trustee board and is financially independent.

FPH governance FAQs

Standing Orders

The Faculty’s governing document is its Standing Orders which sets out the functions, objects and procedures within which it must operate.

The objects are defined as:

1. To promote for the public benefit the advancement of knowledge in the field of public health
2. To develop public health with a view to maintaining the highest possible standards of professional competence and practice
3. To act as an authoritative body for the purpose of consultation and advocacy in matters of educational or public interest concerning public health