A national initiative to help federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial (STLT) public health agencies identify, pilot, and scale practical applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in real-world public health settings.
PULSE is a six-month, fully virtual program helping public health practitioners embed generative AI into their daily workflow. Selected applicants will get free enterprise AI access (with either Anthropic or OpenAI) for your team, hands-on onboarding and training, and a community of peers working through the same questions you are.
We surveyed the public health field (what use cases are happening and which ones need to exist) to identify which generative AI use cases would deliver the most value. These five were chosen:
In total, we're making 2,000 licenses available across 10 enterprise workspaces — 5 provided by Anthropic and 5 provided by OpenAI. Each of the 10 selected jurisdictions will be able to sign up to 200 team members from their agency to join these five use case communities of practice for the duration of the program. So please do not worry if your agency is small or very large, there will be licenses available.
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Download a one-pager to take to your teams here
The Coalition for Health AI PULSE Program.pdf
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How it works
One application is needed per enterprise (e.g., your agency or organization). The application is simple but does need to include the signatory authorized to sign the Business Associate Agreement (BAA) with OpenAI/Anthropic on behalf of the agency/jurisdiction. We have 10 enterprise workspaces, and each participating agency/jurisdiction can have up to 200 individuals as part of their workspace.
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What's a BAA? A Business Associate Agreement (BAA) is a contract required under HIPAA between a healthcare organization and any vendor that may handle protected health information (PHI) on its behalf. It sets out how that data will be protected, used, and kept confidential — and it's what legally allows your agency to use OpenAI's or Anthropic's enterprise AI tools with health data, with the vendor bound to safeguard it. This does not necessarily mean that a jurisdiction will choose to disclose PHI, but it safeguards in the case they do.
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