Turn verified information into coordinated action.

Hub Public Benefit Corp. builds accountable, privacy-respecting systems for verified public communication and coordination — with government agencies, academic partners, and community collaborators.

Our work is grounded in a simple idea: people and agencies need broad public access to verified knowledge that supports informed decision-making. We build products, partnerships, and communication systems designed to help communities act with confidence.

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Turn verified information into coordinated action.

Why this work

The problem

Important information often breaks down before it becomes useful action. It gets delayed, fragmented across channels, trapped inside organizations, or published in ways that don't reach the people who need it.

Our response

Hub Public Benefit Corp builds systems that help verified information move clearly across languages, channels, and organizations — so people, communities, and institutions can share what matters, coordinate more easily, and act together.

Why Hub

Hub is structured for public benefit, not attention extraction. Trust, accountability, privacy, and practical usefulness are part of the system, not just part of the story.

COMMUNITIES SERVED

3432

COUNTIES, TERRITORIES, AND NATIONS

ACTIVE RISKS & HAZARDS

WEATHER, DISEASE, SAFETY, AND MORE

ALERTS ISSUED

3353994

JAN 1 - DEC 31, 2025

Leadership

Sameer Halai leads Hub Public Benefit Corp., focused on verified public communication, privacy-respecting infrastructure, and long-term public-benefit governance.

His work brings together public agencies, academic partners, and product teams to help verified information move clearly across languages, channels, and organizations — so communities can coordinate and act on it.

Sameer also serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Arizona College of Public Health. Hub PBC is structured for public benefit, not attention extraction — accountability, privacy, and practical usefulness are part of the system, not just part of the story.

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Public Benefit by Charter

Hub is a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation. Our public benefit purpose is written into our charter, not added as a marketing message after the fact.

Legal mission: "To provide broad public access to verified knowledge that supports informed decision-making."

Public benefit in governance — We are required to balance stockholder interests with our stated public benefit purpose and the interests of those materially affected by our conduct.
Durable public value over short-term optimization — We prioritize accountability and long-term usefulness, not attention extraction.
No ads, no data sales, no tracking — Our operating model is designed around accountability and privacy.

How We Work

Public benefit first

Design the organization, products, and decisions to serve people and communities, not extraction, attention, or short-term gain.

Trust by design

Make trust a property of the system through transparency, attribution, accountability, and auditable decisions.

Verified knowledge to action

Ground action in verified information people, communities, and organizations can understand and use.

Privacy without compromise

Protect people through purpose-limited systems that avoid ads, data sales, tracking, and unnecessary data collection.

Practical usefulness

Build for real conditions, real constraints, and clear action so the work is useful in everyday life.

Open collaboration

Break down the silos that block useful collaboration and make it easier for people, communities, and organizations to work together.

What we build and operate

PHapp®

Public-facing product. Free, verified health and safety guidance in 50+ human-reviewed languages — delivered through app, web, SMS, and email.

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Portal by Hub

Agency-facing operational product. Operational control for teams that need to publish, localize, and coordinate verified public communication across regions.

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Wehealth®

Initiative and community umbrella. Brings together public health professionals, researchers, and partners to co-develop better communication tools and practices.

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Formal Partners

University of Arizona

Formal academic partner supporting research, implementation, and public-interest innovation.

Arizona Department of Health Services

Formal government partner supporting public health communication and operational coordination.

Government of Bermuda

Formal public-sector partner supporting verified public health communication and community-facing implementation.

Recognitions, Memberships & Ecosystem

NOAA Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador

Official designation recognizing work that helps communities prepare for and respond to weather-related risk.

Google for Startups alumni

Alumni of Google for Startups, reflecting continued participation in mission-aligned founder and product ecosystems.

Content Authenticity Initiative

Member of a cross-industry initiative focused on transparency and trust in digital content.

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Research Community & Forum

Beyond our formal partnerships, Hub works with a broader multidisciplinary community through the Wehealth® Forum. This community helps shape product design, communication approaches, and practical public health use cases.

Multidisciplinary collaboration — Public health leaders, researchers, emergency managers, and practitioners contribute to ongoing discussion and co-development.
Institutional affiliations represented — The group includes individual contributors affiliated with institutions such as UC Berkeley and the University of Minnesota.
Applied input — Forum participants help review ideas, share field context, and strengthen how verified information reaches communities.

Learn how we work with partners and communities.

Explore the Wehealth® Forum to see how Hub collaborates across research, practice, and public communication.

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