  Research in population and public health focuses on the mechanisms between
different cultural, social, and environmental factors and their effect on the
health, of not just individuals, but communities as a whole. We present here a
very brief introduction into research in these fields, as well as connections
to existing machine learning work to help activate the machine learning
community on such topics and highlight specific opportunities where machine
learning, public and population health may synergize to better achieve health
equity.
