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ArticleJournal of medical Internet research2025

The Role of Data in Public Health and Health Innovation: Perspectives on Social Determinants of Health, Community-Based Data Approaches, and AI.

Kaakpema Yelpaala, Michael Christopher Gibbons, Ines Maria Vigil, Jennifer Leaño, Terika McCall, Ijeoma Opara, Anne Zink, Marcella Nunez-Smith, Bhramar Mukherjee, Megan Ranney

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Article in Journal of medical Internet research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Kaakpema YelpaalaDepartment of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06510, United States, 1 2037852867.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0006-3874-8542
Michael Christopher GibbonsThe Greystone Group, Greenbelt, MD, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5990-902X
Ines Maria VigilHealthcare Management and Administration, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0005-7278-2632
Jennifer LeañoYale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-7227-8957
Terika McCallDepartment of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8143-5393
Ijeoma OparaDepartment of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1118-4699
Anne ZinkDepartment of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06510, United States, 1 2037852867.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0003-6682-0124
Marcella Nunez-SmithSection of General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2797-4756
Bhramar MukherjeeDepartment of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0118-4561
Megan RanneyDepartment of Health Policy and Management, Yale School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT, 06510, United States, 1 2037852867.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8450-9642

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unlabelled: Public health is undergoing profound transformation driven by data from the global health sector and related fields. To address systemic health disparities, scholars and health practitioners are increasingly applying a data equity lens, an approach that has become even more urgent as the United States faces the erosion of public health data infrastructure. This paper summarizes insights from an April 2024 convening by the Yale School of Public Health-The Role of Data in Public Health Equity and Innovation-with intersectoral stakeholders from academia, government (local, state, and federal), health care, and private industry. The convening included keynote presentations and roundtables regarding the depiction of social determinants of health in data; effects of artificial intelligence (AI) on health data equity; and community-based models for data, providing a framework for cross-cutting discussions. Through a narrative synthesis, themes were identified and synthesized from systematically gathered information from presentations and roundtables. This process led to a set of actionable, cross-cutting recommendations to guide inclusive and impactful data practices for policymakers, public health professionals, and health innovators across diverse contexts: (1) enable big data and interoperability connecting social determinants of health and health outcomes; (2) include diverse, nontechnical voices in AI and health discussions; (3) fund research on data equity and AI in health sciences; (4) modernize the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) with new guidelines for AI and big data; and (5) research and conceptual frameworks are needed to elucidate interconnections between data equity and health equity.

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Artificial IntelligencePublic HealthSocial Determinants of HealthHumansUnited StatesAIartificial intelligencecommunity-based data approachesdata equityHealth Insurance Portability and Accountability Acthealth policyHIPAASDOHsocial determinants of health

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PMID41060023
PMCPMC12505398

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