Global Health Institute

Amit Chandra will discuss challenges emerging from rapid artificial intelligence integration in health care and academic settings, drawing from experiences implementing AI tools in both global health practice and health professions education contexts. He will examine three interconnected risks: 1) AI hallucinations that generate convincing but fabricated content; 2) deskilling effects where students and practitioners lose fundamental competencies; and 3) equity implications as free tools evolve into paid subscription services. The presentation will explore why AI literacy is now essential for patients, clinicians, and public health practitioners.

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Amit Chandra, M.D., M.Sc., FACEP, is a board-certified emergency physician and public health diplomat with clinical experience in Southern Africa, South Asia, and New York City. From 2019 to 2025, he served as a senior health advisor and foreign service diplomat with U.S. Agency for International Development’s’s Bureau for Asia, where he led initiatives on digital and planetary health, managed a $25 million urban resilience activity, and served on USAID's COVID-19 task force. As adjunct faculty at Georgetown University since 2021, he teaches a course on disruptive technologies for the Master of Science in Global Health program and the capstone course for the Bachelor of Science in Global Health program. His research explores opportunities, equity implications, and risks of technologies like artificial intelligence in global health. His writing has been featured in Science, Ars Technica, Think Global Health, and STAT, and he publishes analysis and commentary through his Substack newsletter, Apothek Dispatch.