The document discusses the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in transforming public health, highlighting trends such as open health, citizen science, and the integration of mobile health interventions. It emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary approaches and the need for new skills in data management, analytics, and technological literacy within the public health sector. The document also addresses challenges related to gender violence, privacy, and the use of big data in addressing health issues, advocating for collaborative and innovative strategies to enhance health outcomes.

1. ICTs and the Future of
Public Health
Jody Ranck, DrPH
Institute of Medicine Workshop on ICTs and Global Violence
Prevention
December 8, 2011

2. Key Trends
More pervasive computing power
Cultures of sharing/cooperation
Open Health
Biocitizenship/Technological Citizenship
The rise of the infosphere and the inforg

5. Beyond Old Media vs. New
Media
Source: Distributive Networks

6. Internet of Things, too…
Source: Cisco Systems

7. Smart Cities
Source: Postscapes.com

8. Sensors, mobilesmicro-
insurance

10. Impact of Social Media
Cultures of sharing
Mashups
Amplification of selves, rapid response
systems/alerts
Connecting to the long tail
Emergence of technological citizenship

11. mHealth
Over 80% of countries have at least one
intervention right now
From Data Collection to Prevention to Acute
Treatment and Transparency
Building the evidence base, many pilots
Next 3 years, more smartphone-based
Ecosystem will change how we think about
health system transformation

12. Continuum of Care
Peer-to-
Diagnostic Acute Long-Term
Prevention Monitoring Peer data
Screening Treatment Treatment
collection

13. mViolence app

15. Some learnings on
mobiles, gender, violence
The mobile is not a universally appropriate tool
for gender violence---some studies demonstrate
increased risk of violence
Points to the need to look at Gender, Power and
Tech together
Privacy and data, security of SMS
Emerging area of liberation technology may be
useful

16. Pwning Asthma
Source: CITRIS, UC Berkeley

17. Rise of Open Health

18. Open Health

19. Open Data

20. Citizen Science/Technological
Citizenship

21. Citizen science-Mapping

22. Citizen Science Platform

23. Open Innovation and
Crowdsourcing
New Skills for Working with Swarms
Interdisciplinarity  Transdisciplinarity
Future of work: temporal, modular
New Learning Cultures

24. App
Challenges/Crowdsourcing

25. On Watch Circle of 6

26. Visual Cultures
Mapping
Data Visualizations
Infographics
New Media Art and Re-Framing Health

27. Visualizing Statistics

28. Data as Art

29. Data as Art
Source: Janet Echelman/NASA Jet Propulsion Lab/NOAA Tsunami Research Center

30. “In the Air”

31. Natalie Jeremijenko:
Environmental Health Clinic

32. Rethinking Health
Making the invisible visible
Public engagement with data
From internal medicine to eternal interventions in
the social body
Transdisciplinary:
art, design, science, community participation
Growing Role of Design:
Service, Information, Product

33. Mapping

36. Open/Big Data &
Journalism

37. Power of Narratives, Big
Data
Telling the story
Big Data: seeing new patterns
Analytics
Gamification

38. Turning data into stories &
movements

39. Big Data and Insights

40. A Big Data- Violence Story
In Camden, NJ Dr. Jeffrey Brenner mapped crime
using medical billing data—found care was neither
medically effective nor cost-effective
7 years of data, 600,000 hospital visits
80% of costs associated with 13% of patients
Total cost of $650 million, mostly public funds
Formed Camden Coalition of Healthcare
Providers to address the problem

41. Commons and
Cooperation

42. Gamification
Source: http://technorati.com/business/advertising/article/has-your-site-been-gamified

44. Role Playing Game-
PEPFAR

45. Moving beyond “There’s an
app for that…”

46. Social Movements
Source: Al-Ahram

47. Future of Public Health
New Skills and Literacies for Public Health
Service Design and Change Management
Technological Literacy: shortage of health
informaticians
Business Plans and crossing public-private
divide
Information Architecture and Architecture of
Participation

48. Recap
Participatory Media: democratizing health knowledge and
data
Health is increasingly resembling IT services
New forms of data, uses of data, new data skills
Technology and Culture of Learning
Less hierarchical organizationsNetwork orgs
From command & control to coordinate and cultivate
We are information organismsInforgs
Possibilities for reverse flows in innovation trajectories
Public Health as a Platform—what is the service we can
offer that catalyzes change? And do it, with fewer
resources-disruptive innovation

50. The End
jodyranck@sbcglobal.net
Twitter: jranck
Affiliations: Public Health Institute, GigaOM