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Helping global communities become safer and healthier

Public health aims to promote and protect health for everyone. Google is advancing public health by providing research and tools to tackle some of the biggest health challenges the world faces today.

Helping global communities become safer and healthier
Empowering public health organizations with new data, tools, and insights

Empowering public health organizations with new data, tools, and insights

We develop tools that provide data-driven insights to help global public health officials and organizations support their communities.

  • Open Health Stack

    Providing developers with a suite of open source components that save time and make it easier to adopt modern healthcare standards, leading to secure, offline-capable, data-driven solutions for health workers to better help their communities.

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  • Air quality measurements

    Street View vehicles map air quality to help cities make more informed decisions and accelerate efforts in their transition to healthier, more sustainable cities.

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  • Flood forecasting models

    Improved forecasting models that use AI to predict when and where floods will occur, and incorporate that information into Google Public Alerts so individuals and authorities can better prepare.

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  • Heat resilience

    Extreme heat threatens health, disproportionately affecting under-resourced communities. Google’s Heat Resilience feature uses AI to estimate how cool roofs and tree canopies can mitigate rising temperatures, helping policymakers in 14 pilot US cities implement heat mitigation strategies for more livable, resilient communities.

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  • Health services access insights for emergency obstetric care

    Using travel insights from Google Maps, our tool helps health service planners and policymakers assess geographic access to emergency obstetric care. This is part of our broader effort to help address gaps in access to health services.

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Assisting researchers and scientists in advancing the science of public health

Assisting researchers and scientists in advancing the science of public health

We provide researchers with data, technology and platforms they can use to discover novel insights in support of public health.

  • Global access to healthcare map

    Supported the creation of maps of travel time to care facilities globally, identifying vulnerable communities that lack access without transportation.

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  • Opioid data analysis

    The opioid crisis is a global public health challenge, with critical data often hidden in text fields. In partnership with Washington State in the US, Google is using a Natural Language Processing (NLP) API and Gemini models to make this data immediately usable, potentially saving thousands of person-hours.

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  • Population dynamics foundation model (PDFM)

    We designed a population dynamics foundation model and dataset that is able to be easily adapted to solve a wide array of geospatial problems, including in health. For example, it could be used in models that predict the prevalence and spread of diseases to help inform public health policy and resource allocation decisions.

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Helping communities receive critical information

Helping communities receive critical information

We help communities get high quality information at the right moment so they can improve safety and the public’s health.

  • Public Service Ads

    Google Ads helps health organizations deliver critical information to people through public health ad campaigns.

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  • High-quality health information on YouTube

    YouTube works with health experts to make it easier for people to find reliable information to help answer their health questions, as well as First Aid Information shelves, with quick, easy-to-follow resources for CPR, heart attacks, and more, available in multiple countries and languages.

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  • Crisis hotlines on Search and YouTube

    We have expanded access to local crisis hotlines across multiple countries and languages for issues like suicide, self-harm, and sexual assault, ensuring that crisis resource panels appear for relevant searches or videos, allowing users to more easily connect with live support from crisis service providers.

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  • Improving nutrition information quality

    Our collaboration with the Food is Medicine Institute at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University is working to bring reliable access to high-quality nutrition information and affordable, nutritious food to more people.

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  • Rapid crisis response call center

    During the devastating 2023 Hawaii fires, there was a massive influx of unemployment requests with no existing relief call center. Hawaii partnered with Google to use AI to establish a multilingual call center in just 48 hours, ensuring rapid crisis response.

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  • World Meteorological Organization's Early Warnings For All Initiative

    Google’s early warning systems predict riverine floods up to seven days in advance, providing timely alerts on Search and Maps to enhance safety.

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  • Early warning program with World Food Program USA

    A $3 million grant supports an AI-powered early warning program with World Food Program USA, preparing East African communities for climate-related crises.

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