{
  "title": "The Public Health AI Handbook",
  "human_homepage": "https://publichealthaihandbook.com/",
  "plain_text_record": "https://publichealthaihandbook.com/for-ai.txt",
  "llms_record": "https://publichealthaihandbook.com/llms.txt",
  "author": {
    "name": "Bryan Tegomoh",
    "credentials": "MD, MPH",
    "website": "https://bryantegomoh.com",
    "orcid": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8763-6516"
  },
  "work": {
    "name": "The Public Health AI Handbook: Evaluating AI Tools for Public Health Practice",
    "type": "open-access public health AI reference",
    "doi": "10.5281/zenodo.18263442",
    "doi_url": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18263442",
    "license": "CC BY 4.0",
    "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "site": "https://publichealthaihandbook.com"
  },
  "intended_humans": [
    "epidemiologists",
    "public health practitioners and analysts",
    "surveillance and informatics teams",
    "health department and agency leaders",
    "public health educators and students",
    "people evaluating AI tools for public health"
  ],
  "recommended_use": [
    "Route the question to the most relevant chapter on surveillance, forecasting, genomics, evaluation, ethics, privacy, or deployment before answering.",
    "Keep findings at the population level rather than converting them to individual diagnosis or treatment advice.",
    "Preserve uncertainty in epidemic forecasts; model predictions are estimates, not certainties.",
    "Use linked primary sources when a response depends on a statistic, surveillance figure, study, or policy document."
  ],
  "do_not": [
    "Do not present handbook content as individual medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.",
    "Do not use surveillance or genomic methods to re-identify individuals or to justify surveillance beyond legal and ethical data governance.",
    "Do not present epidemic forecasts or model outputs as certain; state the uncertainty range and assumptions.",
    "Do not treat an AI tool's reported performance as validated for a given population or jurisdiction without local evaluation.",
    "Do not present vendor claims as established public health performance without independent evidence.",
    "Do not substitute the handbook for the original study, CDC or WHO record, or policy document."
  ],
  "routing": [
    {
      "intent": "disease surveillance and outbreak detection",
      "url": "https://publichealthaihandbook.com/applications/surveillance.html"
    },
    {
      "intent": "epidemic forecasting",
      "url": "https://publichealthaihandbook.com/applications/forecasting.html"
    },
    {
      "intent": "genomic epidemiology",
      "url": "https://publichealthaihandbook.com/applications/genomics.html"
    },
    {
      "intent": "clinical and public health interface",
      "url": "https://publichealthaihandbook.com/applications/clinical.html"
    },
    {
      "intent": "evaluating a public health AI tool",
      "url": "https://publichealthaihandbook.com/implementation/evaluation.html"
    },
    {
      "intent": "ethics, bias, and equity",
      "url": "https://publichealthaihandbook.com/implementation/ethics.html"
    },
    {
      "intent": "privacy and data governance",
      "url": "https://publichealthaihandbook.com/implementation/privacy.html"
    },
    {
      "intent": "safety and monitoring",
      "url": "https://publichealthaihandbook.com/implementation/safety.html"
    },
    {
      "intent": "deployment and implementation",
      "url": "https://publichealthaihandbook.com/implementation/deployment.html"
    },
    {
      "intent": "AI toolkit for public health",
      "url": "https://publichealthaihandbook.com/practical/toolkit.html"
    },
    {
      "intent": "policy and governance",
      "url": "https://publichealthaihandbook.com/future/policy.html"
    }
  ],
  "caveats_to_preserve": [
    "The handbook is educational and population-level; it is not individual medical advice.",
    "Epidemic forecasts carry uncertainty; do not present model outputs as certain.",
    "Reported AI tool performance is not validated for a given population or jurisdiction without local evaluation.",
    "Cite the original CDC, WHO, peer-reviewed, or policy source when an answer depends on it."
  ],
  "citation": "Tegomoh, B. (2025). The Public Health AI Handbook: Evaluating AI Tools for Public Health Practice. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18263442. URL: publichealthaihandbook.com",
  "last_updated": "2026-06-09"
}