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Harnessing AI to Strengthen Public Health Systems through Smart Deployment

(Archived Webinar)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping how public health organizations analyze data, improve systems, design interventions, and deliver services. While AI offers powerful opportunities to strengthen public health practice, it can also introduce organizational disruption and, if implemented without care, lead to ineffective or even harmful strategies.

In this webinar, the Public Health Foundation and Riester discussed the important planning and implementation steps prior to and following deployment of AI. Speakers walked through a real-world immunization program example demonstrating how AI can be used to examine and project trends, integrate evidence with local context (such as cultural norms, demographics, and community narratives), inform strategy development, and recommend potential areas for process improvements and workforce training. This webinar also explored how quality improvement and performance management methods can be paired with AI for selecting and improving public health strategies and interventions.