AI-Enabled Systems for Public Assistance and Healthcare Access during Natural Hazard Events

Session ID#: 282147

Session Description:
Natural hazards increasingly disrupt critical infrastructure and healthcare access, creating an urgent need to translate predictive hazard capabilities into real-time, actionable decision-support for crisis response. This session invites contributions that bridge disaster research and digital health innovation to advance resilient healthcare systems during disasters. We welcome submissions that use AI, geospatial analytics, and multi-source data (e.g., Earth observations, IoT, mobility, health records, social media) to overcome data sparsity and uncertainty in real-time integration under dynamic conditions.

Topics include, but are not limited to, (1) public-facing assistance systems (e.g., AI chatbots, telemedicine) guiding users to care; (2) response optimization using data-driven evacuation and ambulance routing; (3) resource matching and AI-driven logistics for medical supplies; (4) situational awareness via social sensing for rapid needs assessment; and (5) frameworks ensuring health equity and accessible AI for vulnerable populations. This session advances scalable, human-centered AI frameworks to enhance resilience and healthcare continuity during disasters.

Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • IN - Informatics
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • SY - Science and Society
Index Terms:

0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
1930 Data and information governance [INFORMATICS]
1960 Portals and user interfaces [INFORMATICS]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Primary Convener:  Yilei Yu, Rice University, Center for Coastal Futures & Adaptive Resilience, Houston, United States
Conveners:  Manan Roy Choudhury, Arizona State University, School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Tempe, United States, Zhixuan Qi, University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ann Arbor, United States and Tampu Ravi Kumar, Arizona State University, School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Tempe, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Zhixuan Qi, University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ann Arbor, United States
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