{"id":1351,"date":"2025-08-05T14:05:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T18:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2025-11-07T10:45:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:45:59","slug":"oct-14-public-health-conversation-ai-public-health-and-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/2025\/08\/05\/oct-14-public-health-conversation-ai-public-health-and-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"OCT 14: Public Health Conversation: AI, Public Health, and Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Tuesday, October 14, 2025<br \/>\nVirtual Event<br \/>\n1-2:30pm ET<\/h5>\n<p><em>Registration is now closed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. William J. Bicknell endowed this annual lectureship to provide \u201ca periodic but regular infusion of iconoclasts and original thinkers who will bring ideas\u2026 that stretch, upset, stimulate, and leave us with renewed energy and commitment.\u201d This year, we have asked speakers to consider the ethics of artificial intelligence use in the field of public health both nationally and globally.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Speakers:<\/h4>\n<h5><a href=\"\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Kay-B-1536x1536-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Kay-B-1536x1536-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-1352 size-thumbnail alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Kay-B-1536x1536-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Kay-B-1536x1536-1-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Kay-B-1536x1536-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Kay-B-1536x1536-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Kay-B-1536x1536-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Kay-B-1536x1536-1-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Kay-B-1536x1536-1-189x189.jpg 189w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Kay-B-1536x1536-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Kay Firth-Butterfield<br \/>\nVisiting Scholar, Lucy Family Institute for Data &amp; Society, University of Notre Dame<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/GS_04012025_NicolTurnerLee-e1751997400462.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/GS_04012025_NicolTurnerLee-e1751997400462-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1355 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/GS_04012025_NicolTurnerLee-e1751997400462-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/GS_04012025_NicolTurnerLee-e1751997400462-189x189.jpg 189w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/GS_04012025_NicolTurnerLee-e1751997400462-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/GS_04012025_NicolTurnerLee-e1751997400462.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Nicol Turner Lee<br \/>\nSenior Fellow and Director, Center for Technology Innovation, Brookings Institution<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/suresh_photo_-scaled-e1751997499257-1536x1527-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/suresh_photo_-scaled-e1751997499257-1536x1527-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1353 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/suresh_photo_-scaled-e1751997499257-1536x1527-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/suresh_photo_-scaled-e1751997499257-1536x1527-1-636x632.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/suresh_photo_-scaled-e1751997499257-1536x1527-1-1024x1018.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/suresh_photo_-scaled-e1751997499257-1536x1527-1-768x764.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/suresh_photo_-scaled-e1751997499257-1536x1527-1-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/suresh_photo_-scaled-e1751997499257-1536x1527-1-189x189.jpg 189w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/suresh_photo_-scaled-e1751997499257-1536x1527-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/suresh_photo_-scaled-e1751997499257-1536x1527-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Suresh Venkatasubramanian<br \/>\nProfessor of Data Science and Computer Science, Professor of Humanities &amp; Interim Director of the Data Science Institute, Brown University<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Moderator:<\/h4>\n<h5><a href=\"\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Krishna-scaled-e1753104202920-1536x1536-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Krishna-scaled-e1753104202920-1536x1536-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1354 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Krishna-scaled-e1753104202920-1536x1536-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Krishna-scaled-e1753104202920-1536x1536-1-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Krishna-scaled-e1753104202920-1536x1536-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Krishna-scaled-e1753104202920-1536x1536-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Krishna-scaled-e1753104202920-1536x1536-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Krishna-scaled-e1753104202920-1536x1536-1-700x700.jpg 700w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Krishna-scaled-e1753104202920-1536x1536-1-189x189.jpg 189w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/files\/2025\/08\/Krishna-scaled-e1753104202920-1536x1536-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Krishna Udayakumar<br \/>\nFounding Director, Duke Global Health Innovation Center; Executive Director, Innovations in Healthcare<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, October 14, 2025 Virtual Event 1-2:30pm ET Registration is now closed. Dr. William J. Bicknell endowed this annual lectureship to provide \u201ca periodic but regular infusion of iconoclasts and original thinkers who will bring ideas\u2026 that stretch, upset, stimulate, and leave us with renewed energy and commitment.\u201d This year, we have asked speakers to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/healthdatascience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}