Benefits of a CoP
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Introduction to CoPs
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
- Page last reviewed: March 2, 2015
- Page last updated: May 6, 2011
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