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AI and Global Health

Unlocking Transformative Potential

  • 1st Edition - November 1, 2026
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Adil Haider
  • Language: English

AI and Global Health: Unlocking Transformative Potential provides a roadmap for practitioners to apply and leverage artificial intelligence to strengthen health systems using… Read more

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Description

AI and Global Health: Unlocking Transformative Potential provides a roadmap for practitioners to apply and leverage artificial intelligence to strengthen health systems using the World Health Organization's health systems approach. The book's combination of case studies and secondary research inspires the possibility of what can happen using AI in healthcare, ensuring the use of robust, scientific evidence to draw conclusions. Additionally, readers will learn from others in settings where AI has been a tool for change, providing healthcare practitioners and policymakers with what they need to think through how it can be applied in resource limited settings.

The book provides a strong call to action for policymakers and healthcare leaders of governments, international organizations, and healthcare institutions to take the lead in AI implementation as a key lever for advancing global health goals through a systems approach. As AI is a rapidly evolving field with significant investment made in this industry in recent years from government and the private sector, this book articulates how this growth can be harnessed for countries that need a different approach to addressing global health problems.

Key features

  • Depicts how AI can be used to address health system challenges in a global health setting
  • Provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of high impact AI tools currently being used in healthcare
  • Presents a practical guide/roadmap for implementation aimed at those interested in using AI to improve healthcare governance, financing, and quality of care, etc.

Readership

Healthcare, Public Health and Digital Health Experts, Professionals & Researchers of Multi-lateral Agencies, Non-profit Organizations, Think-tanks, Federal Government Officials and Ministers, Academics, Public Health Practitioners

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Strengthening Health Service Delivery through AI

3. Enhancing the Health Workforce with AI, and building a local AI talent pool

4. Revolutionizing Health Information Systems

5. Improving Access to Essential Medicines with AI

6. Rethinking Health Financing through AI

7. Robust Government and the Importance of Regulatory Processes: AI for Health Systems Strengthening

8. Key Enabling Factors

9. Risks

10. Conclusion

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 1, 2026
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Adil Haider

Adil Haider is an American trauma surgeon, public health researcher, and medical entrepreneur, currently serving as Dean of Aga Khan University Medical College, Pakistan. Previously, he spent over a decade at Johns Hopkins as Director of the Center for Surgical Trials and Outcomes Research. He later joined Harvard as the Kessler Director of the Center for Surgery and Public Health, a joint program of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Recognized for founding the field of Surgical Disparities research, Dr. Haider has developed innovative methodologies for studying surgical outcomes. A recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2017, he became Dean of AKUMC in 2019, elevating it to the top 100 global medical institutions. He has authored over 400 peer-reviewed publications and secured over $20 million in research funding.

Affiliations and expertise
Dean, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan