Providing Real-Time Disease Risk
Weather apps made environmental awareness a daily habit for everyone. We’re building the same thing for health — a clear, personal signal you can check before you decide, not after.
Illustration of the daily risk score in the app.
Why we started this.
Public trust in health information has eroded fast, right as the data needed to make good decisions has become more available than ever — it’s just scattered across a dozen government dashboards nobody checks.
MyRiskMeter exists to close that gap: take real surveillance data — wastewater, case counts, outbreak reports — and turn it into one plain-language number people actually look at, the way they already check the weather before they leave the house.
We’re not trying to replace medical advice or generate fear. We’re trying to make awareness a habit again — without the politics.
of Americans trust the CDC a great deal or fair amount for reliable information.
KFF Tracking Poll, Feb 2026
have a hard time knowing what to trust when health information conflicts.
Pew Research Center, Apr 2026
public health data sources fused into a single daily score.
The economics of early awareness.
These are population-scale examples of the value of early awareness in public health — not claims about MyRiskMeter's own returns. MyRiskMeter brings the same principle — early awareness pays off — to individual decisions, one daily check.
saved for every $1 spent running PulseNet, the foodborne-outbreak detection network — $544M in avoided medical costs and lost productivity on a $7.3M annual cost.
de Vries et al., BMJ Global Health, 2021
a year is the estimated cost of primary pandemic prevention — under 10% of the yearly economic damage from emerging infectious diseases.
Bernstein et al., Science Advances, 2022
is the estimated global toll of delayed data sharing and late detection during the 2003 SARS outbreak.
Lee & McKibbin, in Learning from SARS, NASEM, 2004
The team
Health data and media people, building something neither could build alone.
- Stanford-educated epidemiologist and senior data scientist with 20+ years in oncology and medical devices.
- Leads FDA regulatory submissions for companies including Bristol Myers Squibb, Amgen, and Genentech.
- Specializes in statistical modeling and full-stack development for actionable health insights.
- 20+ years in startup and digital media — MTV, Machinima, JibJab, Trusted Media Brands.
- Led the transformation of a licensing company into a global media brand with a $135M exit.
- Builds distribution and monetization footprints across social, streaming, and audience platforms.
Research & sources
The numbers on this page — and in the app — trace back to public research, not internal estimates.
Trust in the CDC sits below half the country
47% report a great deal or fair amount of trust in the agency for reliable information.
People struggle to judge what to trust
54% have a hard time knowing what to believe when health information conflicts.
Seasonal flu alone costs $11.2B a year
Medical visits, hospital stays, and lost work — before counting any other pathogen.
Get in touch
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Partnerships & enterprise
API access, co-branded pilots, and data licensing.
partnerships@myriskmeter.app