INSPIRE: Readiness: Navigating AI-Enabled Community-Inclusive Preparedness

As part of the INSPIRE: Readiness portfolio, join ASTHO for a webinar that will explore how AI swarm intelligence could transform public health preparedness and infectious disease response. Featuring experts in public health policy, academic evaluation, and AI platform architecture, this webinar will detail how an AI approach could contribute to inclusive emergency planning and enhanced decision-making.

Why It Matters
Public health emergencies disproportionately impact vulnerable communities, yet traditional preparedness exercises often exclude them from planning and decision-making. With AI-enabled swarm intelligence, community organizations have the opportunity to shape scenario development while providing public health agencies with real-time insights for more effective response coordination.

Key Topics:
AI-Driven, Community-Led Exercise Design

• Architecture and swarm intelligence systems with human oversight safeguards
• Distributed exercise development for broader community participation
• Multi-level authorization for governance while supporting culturally relevant scenarios

Independent Evaluation & Measurable Impact

• Assessing cross-organizational data-sharing improvements
• Analysis of exercise quality and community inclusion before and after AI implementation

Health Policy & AI Governance

• AI integration with health departments for preparedness planning
• Ethical and policy considerations for community-led participation in AI-driven systems
• Frameworks for evaluating equity and governance in AI-augmented preparedness

Speakers:

• Justin Snair, MPA, Founder, Prepper.ai
• Rachael Piltch-Loeb, PhD, MSPH, Assistant Professor, CUNY School of Public Health and Health Policy
• Tatiana Lin, MA, Director of Business Strategy and Innovation, Kansas Health Institute