Only 8% of Local Health Departments Use AI. Heather Duncan Wants to Change That
Heather Duncan started out as an English professor, went back to school for an MPH, and is now a PhD student in epidemiology working on how local health departments can actually use AI. She joins Núria and Morgan to talk about the gap between what the technology can do and what public health is currently doing with it.
A 2024 survey from the National Association of County and City Health Officials found that about 8% of local health department staff were using AI at all, while roughly 70% said they were interested. Heather explains what sits in that gap: cost, cybersecurity, unclear legal…
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