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Introduction to CoPs

Benefits of a CoP

Members, organizations, and the public health community can benefit from working together in a CoP. Benefits to each group include:

Members

Continual learning/ professional development

Access to expertise

Improved communication with peers

Increased productivity and quality of work

Networking for keeping current in field

Sense of professional identity

Enhanced professional reputation

Organizations

Reduced time/cost to retrieve information

Reduced learning curves

Knowledge sharing and distribution

Coordination, standardization, and synergies across organizational units

Reduced rework and reinvention

Innovation

Benchmarking against industry standards

Alliance building

Public Health

Consistent communication and reporting

Improved analytic capability

Promotion of standards

Support and promotion of key national initiatives

Advancement of domain-specific capabilities

Linking of geographically dispersed practitioners

Increased government efficiency

 

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