The UK Register for Public Health Specialists provides public protection by ensuring that only competent public health professionals are registered and that high standards of practice are maintained.

The Register was established by the Tripartite Steering Group: the Multidisciplinary Public Health Forum (MDPHF), the Faculty of Public Health (FPH) and the Royal Institute of Public Health (RIPH). Its objective is to promote public confidence in specialist public health practice in the UK through independent regulation. It will achieve this by:

• publishing a register of competent Public Health Specialists
• ensuring through periodic revalidation that Public Health Specialists keep up to date and maintain competence
• dealing with registered specialists who fail to meet the necessary standards

Registration is designed to assure the public and employers which multidisciplinary specialists in public health are appropriately qualified and competent. It sets standards that will be recognised throughout the United Kingdom and provide significant public protection from unprofessional or unethical behaviour.