A Guidebook for Developing Public Health Communities of Practice
The Institute for Public Health Innovation (IPHI), in partnership with the National Network of Public Health Institutes, created this guidebook to explain how Communities of Practice (CoPs) have emerged as a powerful social learning model for building collaboration, shared expertise, and practical problem-solving across fields, including public health.
CoPs bring together committed practitioners who learn from one another through sustained interaction. The National Network of Public Health Institutes (NNPHI) applies this model to strengthen public health training and practice, offering a guidebook with frameworks and tools to launch CoPs. The rationale is grounded in urgent national calls, including Public Health 3.0 and the CDC’s workforce strategy, which emphasize workforce capacity, continuous learning, and equity. As public health faces an expanding scope, persistent inequities, uneven workforce capacity, rapid-response demands, and the limits of traditional training, CoPs offer a practical, technology-enabled approach to continuous, collaborative learning and the effective sharing and implementation of solutions.
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