The Broad Street AI: Navigating Equity, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence in Public Health
Daniel Swartzman Public Health Ethics Lecture Series
October 22, 2026
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Location
Maggiano's Banquets on Clark and Grand
Address
111 W Grand Avenue, Chicago, IL 60654
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Download iCal FileUIC School of Public Health invites you to the 2026 Daniel Swartzman Public Health Ethics Lecture featuring Keynote Speaker Dr. Craig Klugman on Thursday, October 22, 2026. The Daniel Swartzman Public Health Ethics Lecture honors the work of Dr. Swartzman and highlights critical issues in the field of public health ethics.
The Broad Street AI: Navigating Equity, Ethics and Artificial Intelligence in Public Health
Speaker: Craig M. Klugman, PhD, Vincent de Paul Professor of Bioethics & Health Humanities at DePaul University
Description: In the 2020 Brazilian limited series Omniscient, a disease- and violence- free society is maintained by an AI that monitors individuals’ biometrics, blood chemistry, and physical symptoms. If the individual poses a threat to the public, their autonomy is overridden and they are isolated. Artificial intelligence is quickly changing the health care landscape in the United States. With abilities for advanced surveillance, automated resource allocation, and rapid data analysis, AI holds hope for improving the public’s health. However, those benefits arrive alongside serious ethical concerns such as data bias, privacy, ownership, environmental costs, human agency, accountability, and control. Exploring both the promise and the peril, this talk will show the need for ethical and policy guidelines that ensure a human is always in the loop.
Event Timeline:
6:00pm - Doors Open
6:30pm - Lecture Begins
7:30pm - Cocktail/Networking Reception
9:00pm - Event Concludes
This event is free and open to all SPH students, staff, faculty, alums, community partners and community members. Advance registration is requested.
About the Event:
Named in honor of Professor Emeritus Daniel Swartzman, JD, MPH, for his exceptional career promoting social justice, this endowed lecture ensures that the area of public health ethics will forever be a part of the UIC School of Public Health’s efforts to educate tomorrow’s best and brightest leaders. This year's lecture features a presentation on the timely topic of the ethics of AI and Public Health.
Date posted
Sep 2, 2026
Date updated
Sep 22, 2026
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