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Use of Artificial Intelligence in Public Health Education for Pandemic Preparedness and Response

Annals of Global Health
Volume 92 (2026): Issue 1
By: Ellen Crystian Silvestre Garcia Souza,  Aires Garcia dos Santos Junior,  Adriana M. S. Félix,  João Paulo Assunção Borges,  Layze Braz de Oliveira,  Liliane Moretti Carneiro and  Alvaro Francisco Lopes de Sousa  
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/aogh.5130 | Journal eISSN: 2214-9996
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Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 12, 2025
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Accepted on: Jan 18, 2026
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Published on: Feb 20, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
artificial intelligence,
public health education,
pandemics,
chatbots,
machine learning,
misinformation

© 2026 Ellen Crystian Silvestre Garcia Souza, Aires Garcia dos Santos Junior, Adriana M. S. Félix, João Paulo Assunção Borges, Layze Braz de Oliveira, Liliane Moretti Carneiro, Alvaro Francisco Lopes de Sousa, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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