The public health systems success depends critically on the availability of a competent workforce. As a Results, building the capacity of a public health workforce is critical to strengthening national health systems ability to address current and future population health challenges. Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for the public health workforce is essential to ensure best practices in a discipline that involves multi-professional, multi-disciplinary, and multi-organizational activities. Particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the significance of practice-based public health has been emphasized. So, to effectively promote, protect, and improve the population’s health, public health professionals need to have a broad range of knowledge and skills. A long-standing observation has been that the public health workforce is in jeopardy, and the health workforce generally lacks adequate public health competence. In the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR), most countries already face an overall shortage of healthcare workers, with weak competencies, geographical maldistribution, and a lack of specialized health workers. As a specialized public health educational institution in the region, The International Academy of Public Health (IAPH) Aims at responding to current and anticipated public health training needs and forging effective partnerships and synergies to scale up public health education and capacity for more robust health systems and better population health. IAPH offers accredited training programs in various public health disciplines in different modalities, face-to-face, blended and online. In this workshop, IAPH, in collaboration with its partners, will demonstrate a model capable of sustaining capacity building and responding to public health needs during times of turmoil. Workshop Objectives: This workshop Aims to highlight the importance of capacity building for the public health workforce and how professional training institutes respond to the need of the public health workforce. The specific Objectives of the workshop are to: 1.Highlight the importance of CPD for the public health workforce, 2.Present IAPH as a model for providing multidisciplinary professional training, 3. Explain the IAPH model of online training. Key questions: 1. How to maximize the value of CPD for the health workforce? 2. How can regional training institutes contribute to filling the gap in the quantity and quality of competent professionals? 3.How does IAPH contribute to building health workforce capacity in the EMR? Workshop Topics: 1. CPD concepts and approaches, 2. IAPH training model, 3. LMS demonstration methods The workshop will be started with a presentation that covers the three topics and meets the set Objectives. The facilitator will engage attendees to actively participate in the Discussion through questions and answers, sharing experiences, and providing comments and suggestions on the presented topics. A considerable time will be allocated for the wrap-up and Conclusions:. Workshop evaluation: At the end of the workshop, an evaluation form will be filled out by the participants to assess the participants’ satisfaction.