Use Case
Structure your analysis of a health problem, develop an intervention strategy, or critically analyse a policy or strategy document that has been sent to you for review using your preferred frameworks and analytical lenses, guided by a skill you load once at the start of each session.
The Public Health Skill turns your AI into a policy analyst. Instead of producing generic text, it walks through a seven-question confirmation process with you, locking in your focus area, your preferred frameworks/lenses, your output format, and your audience before producing anything. The result is analysis that applies the same frameworks and concepts that you already use on a regular basis to your specific project, in the format you need.
The easiest route is with Claude: download the Claude version of the skill from the repository, add it under Settings → Customize → Skills, and then simply ask for an analysis — "analyse childhood obesity in my region and produce a one-page briefing". The skill activates on its own, introduces itself, and asks the first of its seven questions. On other platforms, download the text version instead and paste it at the start of a new conversation; everything else works the same way.
The skill works hand in hand with a companion file — the public health knowledge base — kept in your working folder. At the start of every session the skill reads this file, so its questions arrive pre-filled with your usual focus areas, frameworks, output formats, and past projects. At the end of every session it writes back: any new framework you used is added with its full citation, the completed project is logged, and your tone and length preferences are refined. The more you use the skill, the more it works like you.
No knowledge base yet? The skill includes a starter template and offers to create the file for you the first time it runs.
Focus area (Q1): Climate change adaptation and vector-borne disease patterns in a Mediterranean country.
Output format (Q2): One-page briefing note for a ministerial briefing.
Frameworks/lenses (Q3): Health in All Policies, One Health, Planetary Boundaries, Dahlgren-Whitehead model, Upstream/Downstream thinking, SDGs and more.
Result: A structured briefing note — upstream (climate policy gaps, IHR core capacities), midstream (community measures; disinsection; risk communication and community engagement), downstream (treatment protocols, individual vulnerability) — with next steps with named roles.