Me agreeing to a new project knowing full well it’s gonna add stress 🇲🇽

Wow, that’s gross.

Not the main point here, but see how fast you can do policy-relevant research if you have a real health system with universal coverage?

Not only could we cover everyone but we could also get better at getting better when it comes to health policy and healthcare services.

What a waste.

Study links long COVID in kids to worse grades, attention, and social life

Yet another reason to clean the air, encourage routine testing, increase paid leave, change policies that encourage presenteeism despite illness, and create cultures where there is no shame attached to masking

Hello, darkness, my old friend;
I’ve come to shop for you again

I would be too.

Yeesh! I hope you’re okay!

Woohoo! Congratulations!

This is absolute trash. Kids are submitting their original art for AP Studio Art classes. Claiming copyright over that work is genuinely evil.

I like it when you promote your book, share you article, tell us about your new job, announce your promotion, brag about your kids, post your pet photos, and post the yummy things you cooked. All of it.

It must suck when your copyright is stolen.

Oh, wait... 👀

I’m alive today because a doctor with more than four decades of experience treating Black patients recognized my symptoms from a very small number of cases he’d seen in his career. This may seem quaint in light of big data and AI, but if it’s your life at stake you’d think (very) differently.

I think part of the reason for this lack of understanding is that in a lot of jobs and fields many people are already accustomed to not actually doing their own work, & having other people do it. And they have such a low opinion of people that they believe machine output can and should replace them.

Who among us has never?

Where all the push to adopt these products is coming from an industry in the midst of an obvious bubble.

There’s a sentence in that report that goes something like, “now is not the time for hesitation.” And I guess my response to that is, “why?” That is such a common sales tactic and it should raise some red flags.

#ThisIsNotPublicHealth

And yet look at this Draft Report from ASPPH ... despite expressly acknowledging the organization has NEVER made express recommendations for the use of ed tech, they jump whole hog into recommending it be made a competency!

Honestly reads like a press release for an AI company. Upsetting.

“The Task Force asserts that AI literacy must become a fundamental part of public health
professionalism, alongside traditional skills like epidemiology and biostatistics.” Just like statistics?! I read the document and I still don’t understand… What does AI literacy in public health actually mean?

I find really upsetting the lack of any warrant for WHY they are issuing these recommendations. Just hand-waving, conclusions meant to norm compliance 2/o any real justification or even explanation for WHY

“AI will never build community
relationships; instead, it must enhance professionals' ability to navigate complex human systems where trust and community voices matter more than sheer algorithmic accuracy.” So many assertions that AI can “enhance professionals’ ability,” so little evidence…

The whole thing feels like a corporate press release that regards the conclusion as already established and goes on to explain how it can be implemented, skipping right past any actual warranting for why the conclusions are valid

BARRIERS TO ADOPTION AND SCALING Several significant barriers prevent public health from reaching its Al potential: • Confidentiality and Political Pressure: Several states have already prohibited health departments from using Al due to fears of data breaches and political backlash. • Legal Liability: Concerns about who is accountable when Al-driven decisions cause harm remain a major hurdle. The Hallucination Problem: Public health relies on high-stakes accuracy, but Al models still struggle with "hallucinating" facts and research publications that do not exist. STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS FOR PRACTICE AND RESEARCH To overcome these barriers, the Task Force proposes several immediate strategic directions: • Formalize the "Bridge Professional": Develop specialized certificate requirements and curriculum tracks to train this new class of worker. • Phased Implementation: Practice organizations should start with small, internal, low-risk pilot projects to build capacity and demonstrate safeguards. • Community-Based Participatory Design: Community partners must be partners, not afterthoughts, from day one of any Al project. • Mandate Diversity in Data: Ensure that dataset curation prioritizes demographic and social-determinant diversity before model validation.

It would not surprise me if they used AI to write this report. Also, they identify all these serious concerns, from data breaches to hallucination of research…And their proposed solution is to train a new class of AI workers to “overcome” these barriers? This is both laughable & profoundly upsetting

OMG: “The integration of AI into our systems, from predictive modeling to community health
engagement, is as significant as the development of modern sanitation or the expansion of vaccinations in the previous century.” I can’t… I just can’t. @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Who sponsored this task force? I want to know everyone who is on it and who exactly commissioned it.

It’s so hard for me to imagine anybody with expertise in public health, or history, or technology, equating the public health impact of AI with VACCINES and SANITATION.

I'm suspicious of any academic group that would write about something so uncritically. It reads like an ad. And as a historian, I LOL at anyone who claims to know how innovative something *will be* in comparison to things in the past that we know now were innovative. it's weird teleology.

Now is a time for “watchful waiting.”

It would seriously take me longer to lay them down like that without breaking anything 😂