Using Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Improve Public Health

1 Credit.

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential for profound impact on all aspects of modern culture, including the practice of public health. Rather than seeing generative AI purely as a threat ("Don't use ChatGPT to write your papers"), this course takes an alternative approach, asking "how can we use generative AI tools to improve the public's health?" Having a solid foundation in the both the capabilities and limitations of generative AI can help students produce good outcomes and prevent bad ones. Direct use of these tools will give students a skills-based foundation in the effective use of these potentially transformative tools. We expect there to be broad student interest in this topic, and a course on generative AI in public health will help advance the School's leadership position in cutting-edge public health education.