Leveraging AI-Powered Tools and Big Data for Global Health Surveillance
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 May 2026 | Viewed by 13
Special Issue Editors
Interests: development of statistical, mathematical and computational models for climate-sensitive regions; infectious disease modeling; global health surveillance; the use of big data, novel information sources, and tools, including GIS and remote sensing, in public health applications and environmental research
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2. Scientific Communications, Sanofi, 450 Water Street, Cambridge, MA 02141, USA
Interests: nutrition surveillance; diet & public health applications; dietary patterns; science communication
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue highlights advances in leveraging AI-powered tools and big data for global health surveillance, as well as the challenges therein. We aim to provide a broad range of examples, best practices, and emerging and well-tested methodologies in collecting, compiling, analyzing, and communicating large-scale information repositories in various public health fields. We expect contributions to describe, conceptualize, and quantify the pros and cons of new approaches of knowledge generation and synthesis to solve key global health issues like climate change, environmental degradation, population aging, etc. We encourage the submission of interdisciplinary work and multi-country collaborative research in particular, which are crucial for the journal’s broad readership. We invite submissions offering recommendations for improving local, national, and global environmental policies and ethical challenges stemming from new information technologies. We also encourage submissions to address environment- and health-related policies that focus on issues related to global disease dynamics, modern nutrition transition, population movements and changes, and their relationship to the environment and food security. We welcome original research papers using various study designs as well as systematic and narrative reviews and meta-analyses.
Prof. Dr. Elena N. Naumova
Dr. Kristin E. Leonberg
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- global health surveillance
- nutrition surveillance systems
- environmental monitoring
- food security
- disease tracking
- public health and environmental policies
- climate change and extreme weather
- data repositories and dashboards
- artificial intelligence
- data analytics
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