Artificial Intelligence & Digital Public Health SIG

SIG Background

Digital technologies and AI offer profound opportunities to improve health and wellbeing, while also generating new and exacerbating known health harms, and raising challenging ethical and policy questions. All areas of public health practice (security, promotion, and healthcare) have the potential to be radically changed.

The AI and Digital Public Health SIG was established to provide Faculty of Public Health leadership in this area. It seeks to develop broad cross-cutting perspectives of the impact, opportunities, and issues of new technologies across the entirety of public health practice.

SIG aims

Bring together members from across the Faculty working in this space to increase impact, share learning and resources, and act as an expert resource to the FPH, its members, and the public.
Seek to build active collaborations and innovative partnerships to advance our three workstreams and extend FPH influence in digital spaces.
Develop CPD resources for FPH members to keep up to date, or develop specialist expertise, on AI and Digital for Public Health.

How the SIG works

View this page for further details on:

Aims of the SIG
How to get involved
Structure and processes
Reporting requirements

Workplan

View the full SIG workplan and workstreams here.

Contact us

The co-chairs of the SIG are:

Alisha Davies: adavies@turing.ac.uk
Samantha (Sam) Field: samanthafield@nhs.net
Elliot Roy-Highley: Elliott.Roy-Highley@nhs.net

The AI and Digital Public Health SIG reports to the Health Improvement Committee (HIC).

Join the SIG

FPH members can join this SIG by logging into their FPH members’ portal account, selecting the ‘Committees/SIGs’ button and choosing the correct SIG. You will then be asked to provide a few details, following which your application will be automatically approved. Further details on FPH membership are available here.

Webinar recordings

Hosted by the FPH AI and Digital Public Health SIG, this Alan Turing Institute's AI UK 2024 Fringe Event brought together members of the public health community alongside the AI research community, who are interested in the potential application of AI in public health.

The event showcased AI developments and the potential application in public health, with space for structured discussion amongst attendees on the opportunities and challenges to the development and deployment of AI across the different domains of public health.

Consultation responses

In December 2024, the Artificial Intelligence & Digital Public Health SIG developed the FPH response to the Social media, misinformation and harmful algorithms inquiry. Read the full response here.