Foundations of AI in Public Health Education: Concepts, Context, and Readiness
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to shape teaching, learning, and academic operations, public health educators and administrators need a shared foundation to engage productively with these tools. The Foundations of AI in Public Health Education online training is designed to provide an overview of the current AI landscape, including commonly used tools and applications relevant to teaching, advising, assessment, and academic administration.
Participants will explore foundational pedagogical and ethical considerations, such as academic integrity, equity, accessibility, and responsible and ethical use, with a focus on implications for schools and programs of public health. Additionally, the presenter, Dr. C. Edward Watson, Vice President of Digital Innovation (AAC&U), will highlight emerging trends and practical scenarios that illustrate how AI is already being applied across higher education, public health, and the workforce.
By the end of the training, participants will have a clearer understanding of what AI can and cannot do, how it intersects with educational practice, and how to critically assess opportunities and risks.
The online training is open to all public health faculty, academic administrators and staff, students, and partners who are interested in building a baseline understanding of AI in academic public health.
- Teacher: Miranda Bosse
Dr. Frieden’s book, The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives—Including Your Own (MIT Press, September 2025), distills four decades of public health leadership into a clear, actionable framework to extend healthy lives. The Formula for Better Health offers a teachable architecture: See the forces that drive disease, Believe that change is possible, Create the organizational and political conditions to make it happen. Grounded in decades of progress across population, global, and personal health.
This course contains instructor materials — syllabi, chapter-by-chapter instructor guides, case studies, test banks with answer keys, slide decks — aligned with current and future CEPH competencies, that coincide with The Formula’s chapters.
Additionally, 11 case studies — smallpox eradication, Alice Hamilton and lead poisoning, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, smoke-free laws, the Ebola response, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, and more — lead students to grapple with the challenges and tradeoffs practitioners face in practical settings.
- Teacher: Miranda Bosse
- Teacher: Cecilia Crews