BACKGROUND:
Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) are increasingly used to translate competency-based education into observable professional work. However, their application has largely been shaped by clinically oriented specialties. Public health (PH) presents distinct challenges, as competence is exercised at population, system, and policy levels rather than through individual patient encounters. Across countries, PH training programmes are exploring how EPAs can be adapted to reflect real-world public health practice, governance complexity, and non-clinical forms of evidence for entrustment. These efforts are occurring at different stages of maturity and within diverse health system contexts, offering important opportunities for shared learning.

METHODS:
This interactive workshop explores the process of developing EPAs for public health training across various health systems. Facilitators will present practical approaches to EPA development, including curriculum mapping, professional consultation, and structured consensus-building methods. The session will explicitly address discipline-specific challenges such as collective and system-embedded practice, political and institutional complexity, and assessing entrustment in non-clinical contexts. Audience participation is central to the workshop and will be facilitated through live polling and structured discussion to test draft EPA concepts, entrustment statements, and assessment approaches against participants’ own training and practice settings. Real-time feedback will be synthesised to explore the transferability of EPA frameworks across different health systems. Expected Outcomes Participants will gain practical insight into EPA development processes for public health, a transferable framework for adapting EPAs to their own contexts, and a clearer understanding of entrustment beyond individual clinical encounters. Collective input will generate cross-context perspectives to inform ongoing EPA development efforts.

CONCLUSIONS:
By sharing emerging experiences and integrating diverse perspectives, this workshop positions EPAs as evolving tools for strengthening the capability, legitimacy, and accountability of the public health workforce training across health systems; while aiming to produce practitioners who think beyond borders while acting within real health systems.