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National Preparedness Month: get your community ready with PHapp®
September is National Preparedness Month. PHapp® gives agencies a free, multilingual way to reach residents with verified health and safety guidance.
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Find Opioid Use Disorder resources near you using PHapp | International Overdose Awareness Day
Discover local Opioid Use Disorder resources with PHapp this International Overdose Awareness Day. Access educational materials and tools in 50+ languages to help prevent overdose deaths.
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AI for Preparedness at University of Arizona Public Health and AI Summer School
Discover how Wehealth uses AI to enhance public health communication, ensuring trusted, personalized, and accessible messages reach the right people at the right time.
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Heat Warnings Made Actionable: PHapp's Community Approach
Transform emergency heat alerts into life-saving resources with PHapp. Instantly access cooling centers, hydration stations, and free transportation to safety through our partnership with the National Weather Service.
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PHapp at Preparedness Summit 2025 & National Preparedness Month Campaign Launch
PHapp launched at the 2025 Preparedness Summit, along with a campaign to enhance community readiness and disaster recovery through innovative public health tools and resources.
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PHapp is now available, as an app and website!
Stay informed and prepared with PHapp, available as a downloadable and web app, offering real-time, verified health and safety alerts tailored to your location.
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Combating Misinformation by Scaling Human Expertise: NACCHO 360 Presentation on AI Safety
Revolutionizing public health communication with AI, Wehealth showcased AI-driven alerts and privacy-first solutions at NACCHO 360, highlighting innovations and future directions in public health technology.
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Wehealth at the NACCHO 360 Annual + PHI*con Convention in Detroit
Wehealth presented updates and collaborations at the NACCHO 360 Annual + PHI*con Convention in Detroit, focusing on public health partnerships and combating misinformation through AI.
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Wehealth at the CSTE Conference 2024 in Pittsburgh
Wehealth team engaged with experts at the CSTE Conference in Pittsburgh, discussing surveillance, epidemiology, AI, and community customization for public health communication.
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Wehealth now also alerts on CDC Respiratory Illness Activity levels
Wehealth now integrates with Respiratory Illness Activity from CDC for all of United States. Alerts are triggered when the underlying data changes for any community.
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Customize Excessive Heat alerts delivered to your county
Local authorities can customize NWS & CDC alerts delivered in their county. Fill a quick survey to submit local resources to promote alongside these alerts.
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Launching updated Wehealth Public Dashboard
There have been more than 400,000 alerts issued to the public just from Jan through April 2024. Of these more than 200,000 were a high level of alert.
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Wehealth at the NACCHO Preparedness Summit 2024 in Cleveland
Wehealth team with the University of Arizona, attended NACCHO Preparedness Summit 2024 in Cleveland, focusing on aligning public health, healthcare, and emergency management to address cascading challenges.
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Wehealth Notify now enhances NWS alerts Across all United States
With the latest release today, Wehealth Notify now supports enhanced alerts for all 3,000+ counties & territories in the United States.
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Wehealth is now a NOAA Weather Ready Nation Ambassador
Wehealth is now a NOAA Weather Ready Nation Ambassador. Weather–Ready Nation is about readying communities for extreme weather, water, and climate events.
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Google & Apple have shut down Exposure Notifications. You will continue to receive public health communication & alerts.
Apple and Google are turning off the underlying exposure notification system. The app will continue to work to keep the community informed and safe.
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Announcing Wehealth Free All-Hazards platform with Exposure Notification for all United States
Wehealth is announcing it's Free All-Hazards platform with Exposure Notification for all United States
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Exposure Notifications in the US after Public Health Emergency
Exposure Notification service in Arizona will continue to function. You will also be notified when CDC tracked hospitalization levels in your county change.
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Wehealth All-hazard Platform at the NACCHO Preparedness Summit 2023
Here's a video and transcript of the presentation of Wehealth All-hazard Preparedness Platform at the 2023 NACCHO National Preparedness Summit in Atlanta.
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Using AI for videos in languages other than english
Here's a demo of an AI at Wehealth providing recommendations to someone who has just reported testing positive.
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Wehealth Notify will continue to provide Exposure Notifications after the National Key Server shuts down
Wehealth Notify will continue to work without any interruption even after the National Key server shuts down.
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Wehealth's Post Exposure Survey Results for Jan-Mar 2023
Wehealth launched a post exposure survey. 37% of people who received an exposure notification reported having a risk of severe illness or weakened immune system.
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Getting an AI avatar to pronounce correctly
When AI avatars look and behave in such a real way, their mistakes seem to feel more magnified. Here are 5 different ways it tries to say \"Covid-19\".\n\n
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Wehealth app shows CDC Community Levels for all 3,000+ counties in US
Wehealth app now shows CDC Community Levels for Covid-19 for all 3,000+ counties in the US.
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Wehealth's Post Exposure Survey Results for Jan 2023
Wehealth launched a post exposure survey that goes out only to users who received a notification. 84% reported followed at least one recommendation
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MIT Lincoln Laboratory: EN in Simulated Real-World Environments
MIT Lincoln Labs just released a video highlighting the work they did to evaluate exposure notifications in simulated real-world environments.
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Wehealth App now Supports Self-Report for Covid-19
Wehealth App now Supports Self-Report for Covid-19
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WeHealth Joins StartUp Health Community
This fall, WeHealth joined the Startup Health community as a member who is working towards pandemic response solutions.
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Wehealth's Impact during Delta Wave in Bermuda
WeHealth App performance as a layer of Bermuda's official Covid-19 defense stack. App impact during the Delta variant outbreak, Fall of 2021.
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Intern: Katie Esterline studies user hesitancy around EN technology
WeHealth's UX Research Intern Katie Esterline explored privacy perceptions and hesitancy individuals encounter when using a smartphone app to fight COVID-19.
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Intern: Niti Patel explores design of Exposure Notifications for Flu
WeHealth's UX Research Intern Niti Patel shares insight on current behaviors, preferences, and motivations around flu to help identify opportunities to inform design strategy.
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Intern: Laura Atukunda studies barriers to Covid-19 mitigation on university campuses
Laura Atukunda recently completed an internship with WeHealth where she studied COVID-19 mitigation strategies on university campuses.
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EN Technology for American Indian & Alaskan Native Reservations
As a Native American and budding Public Health scientist, I invite you to join me to investigate the utility of these tools for American Indian/Alaskan Native Tribal Nations and reservations.
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Here's how Wehealth offers customized community-level EN app messaging
The Wehealth platform is customizable for each community, making it easier to provide trusted and local resources and recommendations.
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How to extend ENX with WeHealth in one week. Really!
Several states in the US have gone live with ENX. This is a great start and is a great way to get good adoption going. To further optimize the efforts, and to improve outcomes and efficacy, states can also add WeHealth to the rollout. The whole launch can be done in one week. WeHealth is completely turn-key and actually reduces the overhead of running ENX.
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WeHealth Becomes an LFPH Founding Member
As of December 16, 2020, WeHealth upgraded its Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH) membership and is now a Founding General Member.
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WeHealth Exposure Notification App Launches in Bermuda
After Successful Pilot, WeHealth Bermuda Now Available for all Residents and Visitors.
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How the Wehealth App Was Tested
Learn how researchers tested the Covid Watch app to calibrate for distance and to incorporate a sophisticated risk model for customized recommendations.
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Wehealth Exposure Notification App Launches in Arizona
The first ever exposure notification app using a dynamic risk model and real-time recommendations begins a phased rollout at the University of Arizona and distinguishes itself from competing platforms in the process.
