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Power and artificial intelligence: transformation of the global public health ecosystem

Abstract

This chapter introduces the book’s unique value proposition as the first comprehensive global analysis of how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming modern health generally—and how it specifically can revolutionize the decolonized global public health ecosystem to equitably empower the world to solve our era’s defining challenges undermining the health of humanity, from climate change to conflicts, debt crises to deglobalization, and demographic collapse to arrested development. In addition, this chapter outlines the historical evolution, from public health’s early days focused on premodern quarantines to the 19th century’s early modern vaccines ...

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