{"id":1192,"date":"2025-02-10T17:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T22:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/?page_id=1192"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T12:29:30","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/news\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><b>Why Public Health Must Help Shape the Future of AI in Health<\/b><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4><strong><b>New commentary by Dr. Debbie Cheng argues that trustworthy AI depends on embedding public health leadership throughout the AI life cycle.<\/b><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>By <strong>Brendan Galvin<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From disease surveillance to clinical care, artificial intelligence is transforming health. As AI becomes more deeply embedded in decisions affecting population health, a new editorial argues that realizing AI\u2019s full potential requires public health leadership alongside technical innovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/profile\/debbie-cheng\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Debbie Cheng<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, assistant dean of data science at Boston University School of Public Health, and lead author of a new peer-reviewed opinion piece published in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American Journal of Public Health<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> makes the case that public health leadership is essential to building trustworthy AI in health. Dr. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/publichealth.washu.edu\/about\/leadership\/dean-sandro-galea\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sandro Galea<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, dean of the Bursky School of Public Health at Washington University in St. Louis, and Dr. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.icahn.mssm.edu\/madhu-mazumdar\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Madhu Mazumdar<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, director of the Institute for Healthcare Delivery Science at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, coauthored the article. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2026\/07\/16\/boston-university-ajph-oped-highlights-need-for-public-health-leadership-to-build-trustworthy-ai-in-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Public Health Must Help Shape the Future of AI in Health New commentary by Dr. Debbie Cheng argues that trustworthy AI depends on embedding public health leadership throughout the AI life cycle. By Brendan Galvin From disease surveillance to clinical care, artificial intelligence is transforming health. As AI becomes more deeply embedded in decisions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20124,"featured_media":2168,"parent":0,"menu_order":32,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1192\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}