PHapp® AZ: Health & Safety

The University of Arizona

About this app

Stay informed. Help your community.

PHapp® AZ puts verified local health and safety information in one place. Follow the places where you live, work and have family, and see what's happening there, from extreme heat and wildfire smoke to outbreaks and food recalls.

You can also tell us what you see. Report a problem or a local condition to Hub AI in your own language to help keep your community safe.

PHapp AZ is free, and you don't need an account to read it. There are no ads, we don't sell your data, and we don't track you.

STAY INFORMED
Follow towns, cities, counties and ZIP codes. Your feed covers:
• Health and disease
• Weather and severe storms
• Heat, wildfire and air quality
• Food, medicine and product recalls
• Health advisories
• Hazards and emergencies
• Public safety
• Local resources and services

KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM
Every item names the agency that published it and the place it applies to, so you can always see why it reached you.

HELP YOUR COMMUNITY
Seen a flooded road, a closed cooling center or something else your neighbors should know about? Tell Hub AI (Research Preview). Your report goes privately to the Hub team, who can follow up. It isn't posted publicly.

Know a useful local resource that's missing? Sign in and suggest it. An agency checks every suggestion before it shows up.

FIND LOCAL RESOURCES
Look up nearby cooling and warming centers, shelters, naloxone, vaccination sites and food, wherever your community lists them.

WHAT TO DO, NOT JUST WHAT HAPPENED
Many topics come with plain steps for before, during and after an event.

YOUR LANGUAGE
PHapp AZ works in more than 50 languages.

YOU DECIDE WHAT REACHES YOU
Pick the places and topics you care about, and which of them send you notifications. Sign in to choose how many you get.

NO ACCOUNT NEEDED
You can read PHapp AZ and get notifications on this device without an account, an email address or a phone number. Sign in when you want to personalize it or add another way to reach you.

SHARE WITH ANYONE
Send any item by text, email or group chat. The person you send it to can open it on the web without installing anything or signing in.

PRIVACY
No ads. We don't sell your data or track you. Location is optional, and you can find your community by name or ZIP code instead.

WHERE THE INFORMATION COMES FROM
PHapp AZ is not a government app. Hub Public Benefit Corp. builds and maintains it, and our mission is to help turn verified information into coordinated action. Government agencies use PHapp AZ to share information, work with community partners and respond to the people they serve. Most of what you see comes from public agencies such as the National Weather Service (weather.gov), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc.gov), the Food and Drug Administration (fda.gov), the Department of Agriculture (usda.gov), and state, county and city agencies.

IMPORTANT
PHapp AZ is not an emergency service. It does not replace 911, Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), IPAWS or EAS, and we can't guarantee that every notification arrives. In an emergency, call 911.

WHO BUILDS IT
Hub Public Benefit Corp. builds and runs PHapp® AZ together with the University of Arizona, the Arizona Department of Health Services and the Government of Bermuda. Hub PBC is a NOAA Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador™.

Weather-Ready Nation (WRN) Ambassador™ and the WRN Ambassador™ logo are trademarks of the U.S. Department of Commerce and NOAA, used with permission.

Learn more at https://ph.app

Ratings and reviews

This app worked perfectly for me to begin with. Upon getting an exposure alert, I was able to view the details and severity with a simple touch. However, within the last two weeks, I noticed when I received an alert, I am unable to see the details. I am shown when it occurred, but the drop down bar showing the Transmission Risk and total time exposed is no longer available. I've tried all I can think to fix the issue, but at this point, I can no longer rely on it for accurate exposure alerts.

Annoying! It pops up way too often [for me] with "Checking for exposure"... [I spend most my time at home] and if I turn off my Bluetooth setting on my device - a notification pops up & won't stop notifying me that my Bluetooth is off.... until I turn the Bluetooth back on! I don't want/need my Bluetooth on ALL THE TIME!! Especially, when I'm at home!

Haven't found a lot of use for this app, but the notifications about weather events 30 minutes to 2 hours AFTER they happen is great, when I forget that it flooded outside. Having noticed the University of Arizona is the one responding, I'm going to point out that I'm here in Tucson, with you guys. So why are the local notifications consistently hours late? You guys need an IT consultant? I'm available to help you.

What’s new

• Completely redesigned, with lots of new features
• Follow ZIP codes, towns and cities, or use your location, for more relevant local information
• Chat with Hub AI in your language for answers or to report a problem (Research Preview)
• Video library with a full-screen player
• Resources tab for finding cooling centers, shelters, naloxone and more
• Fixes and improvements