B1.02 - Oral Session: Infusing AI Throughout Public Health Curricula

Brief Abstract Summary: Discover how artificial intelligence (AI) can be incorporated into public health education programs. With the rapid advancement of AI, there needs to be a specific focus on what the use and involvement of AI looks like in public health program curricula. We look at how a Bachelor of Science in Public Health program university curriculum systematically embeds AI competencies. Utilizing the AI Competency Matrix for Public Health, three evidence-based AI competency domains: intelligent design, intelligent human, and intelligent data skills encompassing 13 sub-competencies, students are introduced to, develop, and master critical AI prompting, evaluation, and ethical assessment capabilities while maintaining public health values of equity and community-centered practice. This would position graduates as leaders in AI-enhanced public health practice.

Detailed abstract description: Your students are graduating into a workforce that demands AI literacy, but are you preparing them for this reality? This presentation reveals how a Midwestern University had solved a critical gap, educating public health students on how to navigate and integrate AI tools for public health practice, by becoming an early adopter of systematically integrating AI competencies across their entire Bachelor of Science in Public Health curricula. Using the AI Competency Matrix for Public Health, which incorporates three domains – intelligent design, intelligent human, and intelligent data skills – with 13 sub-competencies, we are helping students develop and master critical AI skills through learning, coursework, and application-oriented projects. In this presentation, we will explore how is being infused in teaching students on AI prompting, critical evaluation of AI outputs, and ethical assessment capabilities while preserving core public health values. This isn’t theoretical – it is practical, replicable, and urgent. Learn how we maintain equity focus while advancing technological literacy, ensuring students are well prepared to transfer skills learned on the classroom to skills practiced in their careers. Whether you are faculty, administrators, students, or agency partners, this session provides actionable solutions for the AI integration challenge every public health program faces. The goal is to position current and future public health students as leaders in AI-enhanced public health practice.