Tentative schedule:

• Welcome & Workshop Overview (5 min)

• Framing Introduction: From Promise to Practice — What Is Missing in Foundation Models for Public Health? (15 min – Workshop Chairs)
  A structured overview of the current landscape, major methodological gaps, and translational barriers identified in recent systematic analyses.

• Invited Keynote (45 min + Q&A – Dr. John Holmes, University of Pennsylvania): Foundation Model Informed Agent Based Models.

John H. Holmes, PhD is Professor of Medical Informatics in Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and Associate Director for Education and Training at the Penn Institute for Biomedical Informatics. He is an internationally recognized leader in biomedical informatics, currently President-elect of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA). His work focuses on machine learning, evolutionary computation, deep phenotyping, and interoperable systems for epidemiologic surveillance. He developed graduate and professional curricula in epidemiology and biomedical informatics. He has been deeply engaged in simulation through agent-based and network models of social, behavioral, and policy issues that affect health in the context of ever-changing environments.

• Contributed Talks (2-4 presentations, 15-20 min each including Q&A)

• Break (20 min)

• Contributed Talks (4-6 presentations, 15-20 min each including Q&A)

• Panel/Group Discussion (30 min)

Plenary Synthesis & Conclusion (10 min)