Member since November 2024
Sam Cherubin is a Connecticut-based author, healthcare product strategist, and futurist whose work focuses on climate change, health, and innovation.
With 20+ years leading award-winning digital platforms, he blends systems thinking, storytelling, and execution to help people and organizations navigate a hotter, more volatile world.
Sam has built and scaled tools used by millions.
At Elevance/Anthem, he created and launched the Sydney Health conversational AI, now serving 13 million members, and led the national rollout of the Employer Portal, which processes roughly $10 billion in annual premiums.
At Florida Blue, he led a product team for Find Care/Cost and Member Experience, serving 5 million customers.
His portfolio also includes a Heat Equity pilot with The Weather Channel, pharmacy point-of-care cost tools, interactive onboarding, and a redesigned, plain-language claims experience.
He is the author of the forthcoming book, The Crisis Is Here: Protecting Your Health in a Changing World (Fall 2025), translating climate science into everyday actions for patients, caregivers, and clinicians.
Sam holds a B.A. in English and multiple certifications in product and futures thinking (SAFe POPM, CSM, CFIR, The Futures School, IFTF), reflecting his commitment to ethical, people-centered innovation.
Learn more and connect at samcherubin.com
Helping households prepare for heat, smoke, floods, and power outages with simple, step-by-step tools.
Helping clinicians and public health teams communicate climate-health risks in clear, human language.
Helping health plans and employers design climate-ready member experiences that keep care accessible.
Helping schools, libraries, and cities run practical workshops with local resources and take-home checklists.
Helping conferences create engaging climate-health sessions that send people out the door with a plan.
Helping vulnerable populations become the priority, not the exception.
Government programs are being dismantled.
Scientific research is under attack.
We are grappling with extreme weather events that strain both our mental and physical health.
I want to inform, uplift, and equip us for the hard reality ahead.
Even now, we can still care for one another.
Maintaining compassion and community as the ground shifts beneath us may be the most important thing we can do.
I grew up surrounded by the wonders of the world: monarch butterflies resting on milkweed pods, red-tailed hawks circling above highways, and mockingbirds trilling hundreds of songs. These experiences are profound because of the fragility of our ecosystems. I want to protect them and, by extension, protect us.
I hope you will join me in embracing our collective responsibility to the planet and to one another. Together, we can move from unconsciousness to action.
We can move from thinking, “I’m just one person,” to saying, “I can and will do something.” Let’s begin.
I was at an ice cream shop in Bridgeport, Connecticut, just a short drive from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
As I sat there licking my cone, I was struck by the disconnection between the climate information shared in academic circles, reports, and podcasts, and the everyday interactions of the people around me.
Not far away, experts were unraveling complex data about rising sea levels, extreme heat, and shifting weather patterns. But the people eating ice cream had no idea what was coming. No one was talking to them or making this global crisis feel personal or urgent in their everyday lives. They were not part of the conversation.
I wrote The Crisis Is Here because the book I wanted to read did not exist. Some books focus on policy, scientific projections, or broader environmental impacts, yet few provide practical advice for safeguarding our health. My goal is to highlight the crisis and provide a roadmap for personal action.
I needed an answer to my fundamental questions:
● What’s going to happen?
● How will I be impacted?
● What can I do to stay safe and healthy?
● How can I protect myself and my family?
● What simple steps can I take now to prepare?
Vulnerable populations aren’t a niche; they’re the majority when systems are stressed.
This keynote reframes preparedness around people who are most at risk: older adults, children, people with disabilities, device-dependent patients, and those without stable transportation or internet. When we design for them, everyone benefits.
We connect heat equity, air quality, and outage risk to real barriers: medication refrigeration, pet-friendly sheltering, language access, ADA-compliant transport, and insurance literacy after loss.
We’ll map local assets: community health workers, faith groups, libraries - and show how to stitch them into a neighborhood-level safety net.
Deliverables include an Equity-First Readiness Checklist, a simple neighborhood mutual-aid roster, and a playbook for inclusive events and shelters (co-sheltering pets, cooling and clean-air rooms, signage, translation). Ideal for city leaders, health systems, employers, and conferences ready to operationalize compassion into measurable outcomes.
In a crisis, the problem isn’t a lack of information: it’s too much of the wrong kind.
This talk teaches people to build a simple “information spine” that works when power and cell service are shaky. We cover official alerts, hyperlocal sources, and when to ignore viral noise.
Attendees learn a fast method to verify posts, choose who to follow before the storm, and set up phone features that still work offline.
We’ll practice a 60-second household briefing that reduces panic, plus an inbox strategy for insurance and medical documentation so claims don’t get lost in the chaos.
Everyone leaves with a one-pager: alert setup, trusted sources, verification steps, and a family communication template.
Event organizers get a turnkey worksheet they can brand, so conferences and libraries send people out the door with a plan, not just a talk.
Extreme heat, wildfire smoke, surprise floods, and power outages aren’t surprises anymore: they’re the calendar. This talk translates climate science into plain, practical steps households can take this week, not “someday.” I demystify weather literacy (heat index, wet-bulb, AQI), show how small habits compound, and make preparedness feel doable, not doomsday.
We walk through go-bags that actually get used, family communication plans, evacuation and reunification, pet safety, and neighbor networks. I demonstrate quick wins like text-based alert signups, phone SOS features, shelter-in-place vs. evacuate decisions, and low-cost air quality fixes. Climate Cat’s tips from the book: checklists for heat, air, fire, water, cold are woven throughout.
Attendees leave with a one-page plan, a customizable checklist, and a local-resources worksheet. Ideal for schools, libraries, city partners, and community groups that want a practical, uplifting session where people walk out with a concrete plan and a reason to talk to their neighbors tonight.
Government programs are being dismantled.
Scientific research is under attack.
We are grappling with extreme weather events that strain both our mental and physical health.
I want to inform, uplift, and equip us for the hard reality ahead.
Even now, we can still care for one another.
Maintaining compassion and community as the ground shifts beneath us may be the most important thing we can do.
I grew up surrounded by the wonders of the world: monarch butterflies resting on milkweed pods, red-tailed hawks circling above highways, and mockingbirds trilling hundreds of songs. These experiences are profound because of the fragility of our ecosystems. I want to protect them and, by extension, protect us.
I hope you will join me in embracing our collective responsibility to the planet and to one another. Together, we can move from unconsciousness to action.
We can move from thinking, “I’m just one person,” to saying, “I can and will do something.” Let’s begin.
I was at an ice cream shop in Bridgeport, Connecticut, just a short drive from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication.
As I sat there licking my cone, I was struck by the disconnection between the climate information shared in academic circles, reports, and podcasts, and the everyday interactions of the people around me.
Not far away, experts were unraveling complex data about rising sea levels, extreme heat, and shifting weather patterns. But the people eating ice cream had no idea what was coming. No one was talking to them or making this global crisis feel personal or urgent in their everyday lives. They were not part of the conversation.
I wrote The Crisis Is Here because the book I wanted to read did not exist. Some books focus on policy, scientific projections, or broader environmental impacts, yet few provide practical advice for safeguarding our health. My goal is to highlight the crisis and provide a roadmap for personal action.
I needed an answer to my fundamental questions:
● What’s going to happen?
● How will I be impacted?
● What can I do to stay safe and healthy?
● How can I protect myself and my family?
● What simple steps can I take now to prepare?
Vulnerable populations aren’t a niche; they’re the majority when systems are stressed.
This keynote reframes preparedness around people who are most at risk: older adults, children, people with disabilities, device-dependent patients, and those without stable transportation or internet. When we design for them, everyone benefits.
We connect heat equity, air quality, and outage risk to real barriers: medication refrigeration, pet-friendly sheltering, language access, ADA-compliant transport, and insurance literacy after loss.
We’ll map local assets: community health workers, faith groups, libraries - and show how to stitch them into a neighborhood-level safety net.
Deliverables include an Equity-First Readiness Checklist, a simple neighborhood mutual-aid roster, and a playbook for inclusive events and shelters (co-sheltering pets, cooling and clean-air rooms, signage, translation). Ideal for city leaders, health systems, employers, and conferences ready to operationalize compassion into measurable outcomes.
In a crisis, the problem isn’t a lack of information: it’s too much of the wrong kind.
This talk teaches people to build a simple “information spine” that works when power and cell service are shaky. We cover official alerts, hyperlocal sources, and when to ignore viral noise.
Attendees learn a fast method to verify posts, choose who to follow before the storm, and set up phone features that still work offline.
We’ll practice a 60-second household briefing that reduces panic, plus an inbox strategy for insurance and medical documentation so claims don’t get lost in the chaos.
Everyone leaves with a one-pager: alert setup, trusted sources, verification steps, and a family communication template.
Event organizers get a turnkey worksheet they can brand, so conferences and libraries send people out the door with a plan, not just a talk.
Extreme heat, wildfire smoke, surprise floods, and power outages aren’t surprises anymore: they’re the calendar. This talk translates climate science into plain, practical steps households can take this week, not “someday.” I demystify weather literacy (heat index, wet-bulb, AQI), show how small habits compound, and make preparedness feel doable, not doomsday.
We walk through go-bags that actually get used, family communication plans, evacuation and reunification, pet safety, and neighbor networks. I demonstrate quick wins like text-based alert signups, phone SOS features, shelter-in-place vs. evacuate decisions, and low-cost air quality fixes. Climate Cat’s tips from the book: checklists for heat, air, fire, water, cold are woven throughout.
Attendees leave with a one-page plan, a customizable checklist, and a local-resources worksheet. Ideal for schools, libraries, city partners, and community groups that want a practical, uplifting session where people walk out with a concrete plan and a reason to talk to their neighbors tonight.
