Coordinate rabies surveillance across your region.

Rabies exposures cross county, tribal, and state lines — but surveillance and public guidance often don't. We're developing a regional coordination model with health jurisdictions, building on PHapp®'s verified, multilingual public layer. It's active work in progress, and we're looking for partners.

This is work we're building with partners now. If your region coordinates rabies surveillance and exposure response, we'd like to involve you early.

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Coordinate rabies surveillance across your region.

Rabies doesn't respect jurisdiction lines. Coordination shouldn't stop at them either.

Rabies surveillance and response involve many hands across many boundaries:

  • Animals and exposures move across borders — between counties, tribal lands, and states.
  • The work is split across teams — animal/rabies control, environmental health, epidemiology, and clinicians each hold part of the picture.
  • Public guidance fragments — residents near a boundary get different (or no) exposure information depending on which agency reaches them.
  • Language gaps — exposure guidance often doesn't reach everyone who needs it, in time.

The coordination model we're building.

A shared regional layer for awareness and consistent public guidance — without replacing anyone's surveillance system.

The model under development uses PHapp®'s existing capabilities as the public-facing layer for regional rabies coordination:

  • Consistent exposure guidance across a region, so residents near a boundary get the same verified next steps.
  • Multilingual reach in 50+ human-reviewed languages.
  • A shared surface where neighboring jurisdictions and partners can keep public messaging aligned while each keeps its own authority.

It complements official surveillance and reporting systems — it doesn't replace them.

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The coordination model we're building.
What's already in place.

What's already in place.

The regional coordination layer is new work. The public-alerting foundation it builds on is live today.

Rabies is already a supported alert topic in PHapp®, so jurisdictions can use what exists now while the coordination model develops:

  • Publish verified rabies advisories and exposure guidance to residents.
  • In 50+ languages, across app and web, with SMS/text and email in beta.
  • From official sources — your agency and recognized authorities.

The regional surveillance-coordination layer is the part we're actively building with partners.

How PHapp works

What partners would get.

Aligned public guidance

Consistent, verified exposure guidance across a region, so boundary communities aren't left with conflicting or missing information.

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Multilingual reach

Exposure and prevention guidance in 50+ human-reviewed languages, matched to each resident.

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Complements your systems

Works alongside official surveillance and reporting — adding the public-facing layer, not replacing your tools.

How PHapp fits

Coordinating rabies surveillance in your region?

We're developing this with health jurisdictions and partners now. Get in touch to help shape it and pilot it in your area.

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