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AI in Public Health

 

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As we consider the use of AI to anticipate the next pandemic, a 2026 review of AI in public health noted, “Challenges persist in the interpretability, explainability, generalizability and feasibility of these systems. Also, regulatory, legal, and ethical oversight have not kept pace with AI development. More significantly, existing gaps in health system infrastructure, information system quality, and workforce capacity impede real world implementation of AI for public health.”

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What is Pandemic Ethics?

A pandemic is pervasive in scope and touches virtually every human-made system. In this guidance, we focus on ethics in a government’s or an employer’s actions in a pandemic.

Public health ethics addresses the relationship between those governing or administrating and the population or employees they serve. They are best summarized by the Public Health Code of Ethics of the American Public Health Association.

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