HS 633 - Exploring Gen AI Ethics: Intersection of Ed and Health Ecosystems

This course explores GenAI in public and digital health informatics, emphasizing ethical considerations and the guiding principle of Cura Personalis. Through theoretical discussions, articles, case studies, and hands-on projects, learners will develop the critical thinking skills and ethical awareness necessary to navigate the complex landscape of GenAI integration and potential applications in public health and health informatics. 

This course will provide an introductory overview of what GenAI is and does, how it works, and a brief overview of natural language processing (NLP), foundational to better understanding this technology. Learners will explore how GenAI can go further than NLP by including context. The course will discuss GenAI concepts and frameworks, including generative pre-trained transformer models, enabling learners to recognize GenAI challenges and opportunities to optimize them for public health or medical decision-making. Learners will investigate ways to add the latest literature or knowledge, specialized information training datasets, and some use cases. For example, public health professionals or providers can add datasets for the latest information about responses to a new drug in the context of learning how to improve GenAI system models for use in a specific medical or population context. 

This course will include exercises where learners can use an instance of a currently available GenAI system to do public, population, or medically relevant work. This understanding will help learners explore the tasks that learners with this expertise might be hired to do in a public health institution or healthcare center. Some of the exercises to study in class might include: 

    - Reviewing and summarizing the literature on a specific public, population, or medical topic;
    - Reviewing public, population health, or patient records to extract learnings;
    - Reviewing the literature for a public or population health or drug trial;
    - A public or population health intervention or diagnosis.


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