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Big Cities Health Coalition AI Use Case Catalog
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  • Wastewater surveillance trend alerts
    Dashboard

    Stage: In productionOrganization: Harborview Metro Health District

    Wastewater surveillance trend alerts

    Result in one line: Epi team saw the winter flu rise nine days before case reports confirmed it

    Watches the weekly wastewater sampling results for the metro's five treatment plants, flags statistically unusual rises for COVID, flu and RSV, and posts a short plain-language alert to the epi team's channel before the Monday briefing.

    • Epidemiology & surveillance
    • Data & informatics
    Skills needed to set it up: Analyst or data scientist Readiness: Guided setup Readiness: Needs customization4 more
  • Extreme-heat outreach targeting brief
    Playbook or write-up

    Stage: Idea / exploringOrganization: Sunrise Plains Regional Health Coalition

    Extreme-heat outreach targeting brief

    A worked plan for using the county's existing heat-vulnerability index plus forecast data to decide, two days ahead of a heat event, which neighborhoods get door-knocking, which get robocalls, and which cooling centers to extend — written up for other jurisdictions to adapt before we build anything.

    • Emergency preparedness
    • Environmental health
    • 1 more area of work
    Skills needed to set it up: Anyone on staff Readiness: Reference only Data it touches: Public data only Who sees the output: Partner organizations
  • Side-by-side view of an original boil water notice and its plain-language rewrite, with a pre-publication review checklist.
    Featured Playbook or write-up

    Stage: In productionOrganization: Prairie Ridge County Health Department

    Plain-language rewrites for public notices

    Result in one line: Median reading level of published notices dropped from grade 14 to grade 7

    A prompt kit and review checklist staff use to rewrite public notices at a sixth-grade reading level without changing what the notice requires.

    • Communications & outreach
    • Emergency preparedness
    Skills needed to set it up: Anyone on staff Readiness: Ready to deploy Readiness: Human review built in2 more
  • Review table pairing inspector code citations with drafted resident summaries, style rule checks and an approve or reject decision.
    Source code

    Stage: Idea / exploringOrganization: Cedar Valley County Health Department

    Plain-language restaurant inspection summaries

    Result in one line: 92% of drafted summaries passed the weekly style review without edits

    Nightly job that rewrites inspector code citations into two-sentence summaries a resident can understand, for the public inspection lookup site.

    • Environmental health
    • Communications & outreach
    Skills needed to set it up: Developer Readiness: Needs customization Readiness: Human review built in2 more