EDITORIAL article

Front. Artif. Intell.

Sec. Medicine and Public Health

Volume 8 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frai.2025.1636444

This article is part of the Research TopicOutbreak Oracles: How AI's Journey through COVID-19 Shapes Future Epidemic StrategyView all 10 articles

Editorial: Outbreak Oracles: How AI's Journey through COVID-19 Shapes Future Epidemic Strategy

Provisionally accepted
  • 1National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation Institute, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  • 2University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
  • 3The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, United States

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

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Keywords: Artificial Intelligence1, Covid-192, epidemic modelling3, digital surveillance4, pandemic preparedness5, Explainable AI6, public health decision-making7, data ethics8

Received: 27 May 2025; Accepted: 30 May 2025.

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* Correspondence: Dmytro Chumachenko, National Aerospace University – Kharkiv Aviation Institute, Kharkiv, Ukraine

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