About Arclet

Arclet is public health communications infrastructure—built from a real-world collaborative model and designed to scale nationwide.

Arclet supports public health teams across 22 states, helping organizations increase their capacity to deliver timely, effective, and locally relevant health communication.

Arclet formed in 2023 out of years of real-world frustration: fragmented tools, inefficient workflows, and limited capacity in under-resourced health departments and community organizations.

So we built something better.

Today, Arclet brings together evidence-based messaging from leading organizations, customizable templates, built-in collaboration tools, and performance analytics—all in one place.

Built by practitioners. Designed for impact. Continuously evolving with the field.

From Rural Innovation to AI-Supported Scale

Arclet is built on a model that was tested in the field—creating collaborative infrastructure that expands access to tools and resources for local communicators, strengthens coordination across organizations and regions, incorporates community feedback, and supports shared approaches to evaluation.

From the beginning, we’ve used AI to support this work—helping teams move faster while maintaining quality, clarity, and trust.

In 2024, Arclet received a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to expand this foundation, supporting the development of our AI health communications co-pilot, Arli.

We’re continuing to co-design how AI is used in Arclet alongside our partners—so it reflects how this work actually happens and strengthens, rather than replaces, the role of trusted messengers. Watch a webinar recording about our AI work here.

Meet our Founder

Adrienne Ammerman is the founder of Arclet and a nationally recognized public health communications leader with nearly two decades of experience across local, regional, state, and national systems.

Her career has focused on one central question: how do we equip trusted messengers with the tools they need to protect community health?

In 2019, through her work with WNC Health Network, Adrienne initiated a regional communications collaborative spanning 18 counties in western North Carolina. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she led a customizable campaign model that increased local communicators’ capacity to respond quickly and consistently. The CDC later highlighted the approach as a model strategy.

Arclet was created to scale this work—transforming a successful regional model into national communications infrastructure for public and community health professionals.

Adrienne holds an MA in Health Communication from Johns Hopkins University and was a 2023 Information Futures Fellow at the Brown University School of Public Health.

Meet Our Team

  • Marian Arledge

    Director of Public Health Initiatives

  • Meg Mulhearn

    Content Engineer

  • Yamini Pemmasani

    Full Stack Developer

  • Mason Youngblood

    Lead AI Engineer

  • Andrew Zuercher

    Director of Engineering

Meet Our 2026 Advisors

  • Erin Braasch

    WNC Health Network

  • Del Coufal

    Healthcare Technology & Services

  • Tracy Eames

    TEAMES & Co

  • Stefanie Friedhoff

    Brown University, Information Futures Lab

  • Lee Lance

    Ecobot

  • Khalilah LeGrand

    Association of State & Territorial Health Officers (ASTHO)

  • Brian Southwell

    RTI International

  • David Worrell

    Fractional CFO

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